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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Trends in Green chem
ISSN: 2471-9889
Environmental & Green Chemistry 2017
July 24-26, 2017
Page 106
5
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International Conference on
6
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International Conference on
July 24-26, 2017 Rome, Italy
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Green Chemistry and Technology
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Assessing the vulnerability of freshwater fish in Canada’s eastern boreal to climate change
Michael van Zyll de Jong
and
Hope Olusayna
Memorial University, Canada
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reshwater fishes are vulnerable to climate change. Due to a lack of quantitative data on status and current, and project
trends for most fish species, a systematic assessment approach that incorporates expert knowledge was developed to
determine status and future vulnerability of freshwater fishes to climate change in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The
methodological approach uses expert knowledge, supported by literature reviews of status and biology of the fishes, to score
ten metrics for both (1) current status of each species (baseline vulnerability to extinction) and (2) likely future impacts of
climate change (vulnerability to extinction). Baseline and climate change vulnerability scores were derived for 5 native and 2
alien species of Salmonid fishes.
michaelv@grenfell.mun.caMichael van Zyll de Jong et al., Trends in Green chem, 3:2
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C1-003