Climate change impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016

Climate change impacts on environmental systems
increases in floods and extreme precipitation events
can increase the nutrient load to surface waters
because of increased surface run-off and erosion
(Fraser et al., 1999; Battarbee et al., 2008).
Climate change can enhance harmful algal blooms in
lakes, both as a direct result of temperature increase
and as a result of climate-induced increases in nutrient
concentrations. Increased lake temperature will
generally have a eutrophication-like effect (Schindler,
2001; Jeppesen, Moss et al., 2010), with enhanced
phytoplankton blooms (Wilhelm and Adrian, 2008)
and increased dominance of cyanobacteria in
phytoplankton (Kosten et al., 2012). These changes
may restrain the use of lake drinking water and
recreation, and they may increase the associated health
risks (Mooij et al., 2005; Jöhnk et al., 2008; Paerl and
Huisman, 2008) (see also Section 5.2.6).
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