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SUBMITTER: Jagermeyr J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524928 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jägermeyr Jonas J Pastor Amandine A Biemans Hester H Gerten Dieter D
Nature communications 20170719
Safeguarding river ecosystems is a precondition for attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water and the environment, while rigid implementation of such policies may hamper achievement of food security. River ecosystems provide life-supporting functions that depend on maintaining environmental flow requirements (EFRs). Here we establish gridded process-based estimates of EFRs and their violation through human water withdrawals. Results indicate that 41% of current globa ...[more]