The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River
in the 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its environmental impacts …

Highlights•There has been growing interest and multidisciplinary engagement on
hydropower-related publications focusing on the Amazonian region.•Brazilian universities …

Hydropower is a threat to freshwater fishes. Despite a recent boom in dam construction, few
studies have assessed their impact on mega-diverse tropical rivers. Using a before-after …

Hydropower dams have received increased global attention due to their detrimental
socioenvironmental ramifications. Such attention has led to an increase in studies on the …

Large storage dams have widely documented impacts on downstream aquatic
environments, but hydroelectric dams with little or no capacity for storage of water inflows (ie …

Large dams built for hydroelectric power generation alter the hydrology of rivers, attenuating
the flood pulse downstream of the dam and impacting riparian and floodplain ecosystems …

Livelihood changes associated with forced displacement caused by large dams occur in a
context of socio-environmental transformation, raising the question on how resettled people …

Deforestation rates in the Amazon have markedly increased in the last few years, affecting
non-protected and protected areas (PAs). Brazil is a hotspot of Protected Area Downgrading …

Given growing energy demands and continued interest in hydropower development, it is
important that we rethink hydropower to avoid detrimental socioenvironmental …

Tropical river fisheries support food security for millions of people but are increasingly
threatened by hydropower development. How dams affect these fisheries remains poorly …