River damming has dramatic environmental impacts and while changes due to reservoir
flooding are immediate, downstream impacts are more spatially extensive. Downstream …

Legacy effects on river sediments are those which alter the location and volume of
sediments and/or presence of contaminants within the sediments as a result of human …

Artificial water storage, originated by the construction of dams, is essential for the
sustainable health and welfare of civilizations since it supplies water for human …

Water and sediment inputs are fundamental drivers of river ecosystems, but river
management tends to emphasize flow regime at the expense of sediment regime. In an effort …

Two decades after the construction of the first major dam, the Mekong basin and its six
riparian countries have seen rapid economic growth and development of the river system …

Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the
application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular …

Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. The
increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam‐removal studies …

A substantial increase in fluvial sediment supply relative to transport capacity causes
complex, large-magnitude changes in river and floodplain morphology downstream …

A sharp decrease in total suspended solids (TSS) concentration has occurred in the Mekong
River after the closure of the Manwan Dam in China in 1993, the first of a planned cascade …

Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through
time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are …