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Severe Drought, Other Changes Can Cause Permanent Ecosystem Disruption

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Science Daily

Publication Date
2011-10-18

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2011) — An eight-year study has concluded that increasingly frequent and severe drought, dropping water tables and dried-up springs have pushed some aquatic desert ecosystems into "catastrophic regime change," from which many species will not recover.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013135252.htm