The Freshwater Fish group recently contributed to a collaborative journal paper (Morrongiello et al. 2011) that reviews the implications of climate change for Australia's freshwater fish.  The paper, which brought together a range of scientists from throughout Australia, predicts that many regions of the continent, particularly south-western Australia, face a dire threat due to reduced rainfall and more extreme temperatures.  It concludes that existing anthropogenic impacts need to be better ...
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