Ecological impacts of run-of-river hydropower plants—Current status and future prospects on the brink of energy transition

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The general perception of small run-of-river hydropower plants as renewable energy
sources with little or no environmental impacts has led to a global proliferation of this …

River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research

S Jumani, MJ Deitch, D Kaplan… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Rivers continue to be harnessed to meet humanity's growing demands for electricity, water,
and flood control. While the socioecological impacts of river infrastructure projects (RIPs) …

Evolution of environmental flows assessment science, principles, and methodologies

NLR Poff, RE Tharme, AH Arthington - Water for the Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental flows assessment science focuses largely on defining how modified flow
regimes (from water infrastructure and direct water abstraction) can be managed to conserve …

Rainfall trends and variation in the Maasai Mara ecosystem and their implications for animal population and biodiversity dynamics

GS Bartzke, JO Ogutu, S Mukhopadhyay, D Mtui… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Rainfall exerts a controlling influence on the availability and quality of vegetation and
surface water for herbivores in African terrestrial ecosystems. We analyse temporal trends …

Multidimensional aspects of floods: nature-based mitigation measures from basin to river reach scale

A Kuriqi, A Hysa - Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation …, 2021 - Springer
This chapter aims to deliver a brief overview of flood mitigation and protective measures at
different scales within the catchment area and identify the main factors to be considered in …

The changing role of ecohydrological science in guiding environmental flows

MC Acreman, IC Overton, J King, PJ Wood… - Hydrological …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The term “environmental flows” is now widely used to reflect the hydrological regime
required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, and the human livelihoods and …

The hippopotamus conveyor belt: vectors of carbon and nutrients from terrestrial grasslands to aquatic systems in sub‐Saharan Africa

AL Subalusky, CL Dutton, EJ Rosi‐Marshall… - Freshwater …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hippopotami can play a significant role as ecosystem engineers and may play an important
role as carbon and nutrient vectors from savanna grasslands to aquatic systems. We …

Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus

MD Voysey, PJN de Bruyn, AB Davies - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Megaherbivores perform vital ecosystem engineering roles, and have their last remaining
stronghold in Africa. Of Africa's remaining megaherbivores, the common hippopotamus …

[HTML][HTML] Relative contribution of land use change and climate variability on discharge of upper Mara River, Kenya

HM Mwangi, S Julich, SD Patil, MA McDonald… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Nyangores River watershed, headwater catchment of Mara River
basin in Kenya. Study focus Climate variability and human activities are the main drivers of …

[HTML][HTML] A regional-scale ecological risk framework for environmental flow evaluations

GC O'Brien, C Dickens, E Hines… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Environmental flow (E-flow) frameworks advocate holistic, regional-scale, probabilistic E-
flow assessments that consider flow and non-flow drivers of change in a socio-ecological …