Effects of dam construction on biodiversity: A review

H Wu, J Chen, J Xu, G Zeng, L Sang, Q Liu… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Wetlands (rivers, lakes, bogs, etc.), the biodiversity hotspots, provide habitats for
biology on Earth and play an important role in biodiversity protection around the world …

Assessment of dam effects on streams and fish assemblages of the conterminous USA

AR Cooper, DM Infante, WM Daniel, KE Wehrly… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite the prevalence of damming as a global disturbance to river habitats, detailed reach-
based assessments of the ecological effects of dams are lacking, particularly across large …

Integrative assessment of river damming impacts on aquatic fauna in a Portuguese reservoir

RMB Santos, LFS Fernandes, RMV Cortes… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impacts of river damming on aquatic fauna are assessed and then integrated across
hierarchical scales, portrayed as nested circles. The outer circles characterize the studied …

Cascade dam impoundments restrain the trophic transfer efficiencies in benthic microbial food web

N Yang, Y Li, W Zhang, L Lin, B Qian, L Wang, L Niu… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Determination of the effects of cascade dams on benthic microbial ecosystem is essential for
dam regulation and ecological function protection. However, no comprehensive …

Evaluating freshwater macroinvertebrates from eDNA metabarcoding: A river Nalón case study

S Fernández, S Rodríguez, JL Martínez, YJ Borrell… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Rivers are a vital resource for human wellbeing. To reduce human impact on water bodies,
the European Union has established an essential regulatory framework for protection and …

Concomitant impacts of climate change, fragmentation and non‐native species have led to reorganization of fish communities since the 1980s

L Kuczynski, P Legendre… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim In response to climate change, species distribution shifts resulting from local extinctions,
colonizations and variations in population abundances potentially lead to community‐level …

Dam effects on downstream riparian wetlands: the Nenjiang River, Northeast China

Y Zheng, G Zhang, Y Wu, YJ Xu, C Dai - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Many studies have found that damming a river can change downstream hydrology, sediment
transport, channel morphology, and fish habitat. However, little is known about river dam …

Large-scale cascaded dam constructions drive taxonomic and phylogenetic differentiation of fish fauna in the Lancang River, China

C Zhang, C Ding, L Ding, L Chen, J Hu, J Tao… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2019 - Springer
The establishment of widespread non-native species and the loss of native species driven
by multiple anthropogenic disturbances have led to a dramatic reconfiguration of current …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of instream ecological flow with consideration of ecological responses to hydrological variations in the downstream Hongshui River Basin, China

Y Tang, L Chen, Z She - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to increasing anthropogenic activities, especially with cascade reservoirs having been
constructed, the hydrological regimes of the Hongshui River (HSR) Basin which were mainly …

Status of and perspectives on river restoration in Europe: 310,000 Euros per hectare of restored river

E Szałkiewicz, S Jusik, M Grygoruk - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The purpose of the present research was to analyze the available data on river restoration
projects in Europe. As the framework of our study, we conducted a structured international …