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 …

Measures to safeguard and restore river connectivity

M Thieme, K Birnie-Gauvin, JJ Opperman… - Environmental …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Freshwater connectivity and the associated flow regime are critical components of the health
of freshwater ecosystems. When freshwater ecosystems are fragmented, the movements …

A freshwater perspective on the United Nations decade for ecosystem restoration

SJ Cooke, A Frempong‐Manso… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, ecosystems have suffered from anthropogenic stressors as we enter the sixth mass
extinction within the Anthropocene. In response, the UN has declared 2020–2030 the …

Long-term data show alarming decline of majority of fish species in a Lower Mekong basin fishery

M Chevalier, PB Ngor, K Pin, B Touch, S Lek… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overexploitation, habitat fragmentation, and flow alteration are major threats to freshwater
biodiversity that can lead to fisheries collapse and species extinction. These threats are …

Influences of multiple anthropogenic disturbances coupled with a tailings dam rupture on spatiotemporal variation in fish assemblages of a tropical river

GN Salvador, LFA Montag, RM Hughes… - Freshwater …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Mariana disaster, resulting from the rupture of the Fundão tailings storage facility (TSF)
in 2015, was a large‐scale environmental disaster that drastically affected the entire channel …

[HTML][HTML] Global concerns related to water biology and security: The need for language and policies that safeguard living resources versus those that dilute scientific …

RM Hughes, JR Karr, RL Vadas, DA DellaSala… - Water Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasingly, scientists and non-scientists, especially employees of government agencies,
tend to use weak or equivocal language when making statements related to science policy …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal and Size-Related Fish Microhabitat Use Upstream and Downstream from Small Hydropower Plants

JM Santos, R Leite, MJ Costa, F Godinho, MM Portela… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hydropower can have significant impacts on riverine ecosystems due to hydropeaking (ie,
artificial rapid and short-term fluctuations in water flow and water levels downstream and …

[HTML][HTML] Sensor Fish Deployments at the Xayaburi Hydropower Plant: Measurements and Simulations

P Romero-Gomez, T Poomchaivej, R Razdan… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Fish protection is a priority in regions with ongoing and planned development of hydropower
production, like the Mekong River system. The evaluation of the effects of turbine passage …

State of the Art in Designing Fish-Friendly Turbines: Concepts and Performance Indicators

P Koukouvinis, J Anagnostopoulos - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The expanding role of renewable energy sources in the electricity market share implies the
increasing role of hydropower and the exploitation of unharnessed hydraulic potential, in the …

Feasibility study for test rig assessments of fish passage conditions in a Kaplan turbine

P Romero-Gomez, A Salalila, ZD Deng, R Peyreder - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The assessment of fish passage conditions in hydroelectric turbines consists of identifying
and quantifying physical magnitudes leading to increased risks of injury of fish passing …