River damming impacts on fish habitat and associated conservation measures

Q Chen, Q Li, Y Lin, J Zhang, J **a, J Ni… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
River damming has brought great benefits to flood mitigation, energy and food production,
and will continue to play a significant role in global energy supply, particularly in Asia, Africa …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Designing diversified renewable energy systems to balance multisector performance

JM Gonzalez, JE Tomlinson, EA Martínez Ceseña… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Renewable energy system development and improved operation can mitigate climate
change. In many regions, hydropower is called to counterbalance the temporal variability of …

Balancing renewable energy and river resources by moving from individual assessments of hydropower projects to energy system planning

JJ Opperman, JP Carvallo, R Kelman… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As governments and non-state actors strive to minimize global warming, a primary strategy
is the decarbonization of power systems which will require a massive increase in renewable …

Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs

RM Almeida, RJP Schmitt, A Castelletti… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydropower continues to expand globally as the power sector transitions away from carbon-
intensive fossil fuels. New dam sites vary widely in the magnitude of their adverse effects on …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of existing and planned hydropower dams on river fragmentation in the Balkan Region

M Carolli, CG de Leaniz, J Jones, B Belletti… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Balkan region has some of the best conserved rivers in Europe, but is also the location
of~ 3000 planned hydropower dams that are expected to help decarbonise energy …

Two decades of clear-cutting threats in the Brazilian Amazonian protected areas around the Jirau, Santo Antônio, and Belo Monte large dams

SS Mandai, EA Branco, EM Moretto, JD Barros… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

Impact of a run-of-river dam in an Amazonian large river on the spatial and temporal patterns of phytoplankton beta diversity

FM Zanon, A Pineda, FM Lansac-Tôha… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Human activities degrade aquatic ecosystems and diminish biodiversity. Dams have a direct
impact on river environments, notably affecting aquatic communities like phytoplankton. We …

Streamflow prediction in highly regulated, transboundary watersheds using multi‐basin modeling and remote sensing imagery

TLT Du, H Lee, DD Bui, LP Graham… - Water resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the potential of remote sensing for monitoring reservoir operation, few studies have
investigated the extent to which reservoir releases can be inferred across different spatial …

Functional responses of fisheries to hydropower dams in the Amazonian Floodplain of the Madeira River

CC Arantes, J Laufer, MDS Pinto… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical river fisheries support food security for millions of people but are increasingly
threatened by hydropower development. How dams affect these fisheries remains poorly …