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The impacts of climate change on freshwater ecosystems are difficult to discern due to the complexity of the systems and the uncertainty concerning the effect of climate change on the hydrological cycle. What is generally agreed is that increases in temperature and changing precipitation patterns will lead to changes to the quantity, quality and timing of freshwater flows in the environment. These changes can have a range of eco-hydrological impacts upon freshwater systems outlined in table 3.3.
Table 3.3 Key eco-hydrological impacts of climate change
Source: WWF / Le Quesne et al. 2010
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Again a comment of a colleague from French Office of water:
Even if it is already suggested, it could be interesting to mention at some point that climate change is also going to jeopardize the ability of ecosystems to buffer the variability in water quantity and quality, thus increasing the expected impacts and vulnerability.