Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity

F He, C Zarfl, K Tockner, JD Olden, Z Campos… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Hydropower is a rapidly develo** and globally important source of renewable electricity.
Globally, over 60% of rivers longer than 500 km are already fragmented and thousands of …

Plants as river system engineers

A Gurnell - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants growing within river corridors both affect and respond to fluvial processes. Their
above‐ground biomass modifies the flow field and retains sediment, whereas their below …

Beyond the natural flow regime? Broadening the hydro‐ecological foundation to meet environmental flows challenges in a non‐stationary world

NLR Poff - Freshwater Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The natural flow regime concept has contributed significantly to environmental flows (e‐
flows) science and applications over the last 20 years. Natural flow regimes reflect long …

Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems

JD Tonkin, DM Merritt, JD Olden, LV Reynolds… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Riverine ecosystems are governed by patterns of temporal variation in river flows. This
dynamism will change due to climate change and the near-ubiquitous human control of river …

[書籍][B] Environmental flows: saving rivers in the third millennium

A Arthington - 2012 - books.google.com
Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to
sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that …

Changing river channels: The roles of hydrological processes, plants and pioneer fluvial landforms in humid temperate, mixed load, gravel bed rivers

AM Gurnell, W Bertoldi, D Corenblit - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The fluvial riparian and aquatic patch mosaic varies along rivers according to
geomorphological setting, hydrological regime, sediment supply and surface–groundwater …

Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds

DM Merritt, ML Scott, N LeRoy Poff, GT Auble… - Freshwater …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian vegetation composition, structure and abundance are governed to a large degree
by river flow regime and flow‐mediated fluvial processes. Streamflow regime exerts …

A conceptual model of vegetation–hydrogeomorphology interactions within river corridors

AM Gurnell, D Corenblit… - River research and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a conceptual model of vegetation–hydrogeomorphology interactions and
feedbacks within river corridors (ie river channels and their floodplains) that builds on …

Modeling the interactions between river morphodynamics and riparian vegetation

C Camporeale, E Perucca, L Ridolfi… - Reviews of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The study of river‐riparian vegetation interactions is an important and intriguing research
field in geophysics. Vegetation is an active element of the ecological dynamics of a …

Evolution of environmental flows assessment science, principles, and methodologies

NLR Poff, RE Tharme, AH Arthington - Water for the Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental flows assessment science focuses largely on defining how modified flow
regimes (from water infrastructure and direct water abstraction) can be managed to conserve …