Highlights•River impoundment results in fairly predictable changes in fish functional
diversity.•The most vulnerable species have functional traits associated with flowing water …

Frequent and severe disruptions of natural river flows associated with human activities
significantly alter hydrological connectivity in large river networks, with deleterious effects on …

Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the
number of trade connections and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over …

The impact of large dams is a popular topic in environmental science, but the importance of
altered water quality as a driver of ecological impacts is often missing from such discussions …

Executive summary Although occupying a smaller area compared to land and oceans,
freshwaters are home to a relatively high proportion of species, with more per unit area than …

Planning for extensive cascading hydropower dam exploitation in the southwest of China
has been the subject of debate and conflict in recent years. The middle reach of the Lancang …

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 …

Reservoirs are widely established worldwide with considerable environmental impacts,
especially on the riverine carbon cycle. However, the influence of reservoirs on the cycling of …

We investigate the appearance of spontaneous coherence in the parametric emission from
planar semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime. Calculations are …

Currently, there is a lack of systematic knowledge concerning carbon (C) biogeochemical
cycles in impounded rivers. In this study, we investigated different C species and related …