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Conclusions
Climate change will lead to complex cause-effect chains between temperature/
precipitation and ecosystem response. As climate change will be a main stressor
for aquatic ecosystems in Europe and beyond, the effects need to be specifically
targeted in monitoring programmes, e.g. those implemented for the EU Water
Framework Directive. Possible indicators are to some degree specific for
ecoregions and freshwater ecosystem types and can be selected from a wide range
of chemical, functional and biological parameters. Dose-response relationships
between drivers and indicators need to be defined in future.
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