Environmental change impacts Oklahoma rivers
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey. 'When we think about species becoming extinct, we don't necessarily think of the common species in freshwater systems, many of which are declining,' says Vaughn...