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 …

The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

P Haase, DE Bowler, NJ Baker, N Bonada, S Domisch… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Owing to a long history of anthropogenic pressures, freshwater ecosystems are among the
most vulnerable to biodiversity loss. Mitigation measures, including wastewater treatment …

Species mixing improves soil properties and enzymatic activities in Chinese fir plantations: A meta-analysis

J Guo, H Feng, P McNie, Q Liu, X Xu, C Pan, K Yan… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
It is becoming a tendency for multispecies plantations to be promoted worldwide to enhance
carbon sequestration and provide better ecosystem services. Soil physicochemical …

A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales

DK Petsch, SA Blowes, AS Melo, JM Chase - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change in streams, the nature
of such changes, and at which scales they occur, have not been synthesized. To synthesize …

Flow regulation by dams impacts more than land use on water quality and benthic communities in high-gradient streams in a semi-arid region

MR Calderon, CA Almeida, MB Jofré… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In semi-arid regions, water policy has strongly promoted the construction of water reservoirs
with little or no consideration for their ecological consequences. In order to quantify the effect …

River ecosystem endangerment from climate change-driven regulated flow regimes

RP Rivaes, MJ Feio, SFP Almeida, AR Calapez… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major threats of freshwater systems are river damming and habitat degradation, further
amplified by climate change, another major driver of biodiversity loss. This study aims to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of reservoir-induced ecological flow with consideration of ecological responses to multiple hydrological alterations: a case study in the Feiyun …

S Zhu, Z Dong, S Wu, G Fu, Z Li, J Meng, Y Shao… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
With rapid economic and social development, human activities, such as the construction of
reservoirs, have satisfied many needs. However, these activities have also caused changes …

Responses of macroinvertebrate functional trait structure to river damming: From within-river to basin-scale patterns

J Wang, S Bao, K Zhang, J Heino, X Jiang, Z Liu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Revealing how aquatic organisms respond to dam impacts is essential for river
biomonitoring and management. Traditional examinations of dam impacts on …

Influence of river regulation and instream habitat on invertebrate assemblage'structure and function

AR Calapez, SRQ Serra, R Rivaes, FC Aguiar… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dams modify geomorphology, water quantity, quality and timing of stream flows affecting
ecosystem functioning and aquatic biota. In this study, we addressed the structural and …

Differential impacts of small hydropower plants on macroinvertebrate communities upstream and downstream under ecological flow

Z Lin, X Qi, M Li, Y Duan, H Gao, G Liu, S Khan… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydropower dams influence freshwater biodiversity by altering river flow patterns and
habitat conditions. With the global surge in small hydropower plants (SHPs), their impacts on …