Sentences with phrase «ecosystem changes downstream»

Then there's the effect on people of ecosystem changes downstream, which can certainly be significant.

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Govender cites changes to the river's ecosystem that stem from infrastructure outside the park, including hundreds of coal - mining operations upstream, where crocodiles have disappeared almost completely, and a dam downstream of the gorge.

Changes in precipitation regimes and extreme events can cause ecosystem transitions, increase transport of nutrients and pollutants to downstream ecosystems, and overwhelm the ability of natural systems to mitigate harm to people from these events.

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.