Plants in aquatic ecosystems: current trends and future directions

MT O'Hare, FC Aguiar, T Asaeda, ES Bakker… - Hydrobiologia, 2018 - Springer
Aquatic plants fulfil a wide range of ecological roles, and make a substantial contribution to
the structure, function and service provision of aquatic ecosystems. Given their well …

[HTML][HTML] Dam renovation to prolong reservoir life and mitigate dam impacts

M Kondolf, J Yi - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dams are essential to society, yet have tremendous environmental impacts, for which there
is an increasing interest in mitigation. At the same time, sedimentation threatens the …

Influence of hydrologically based environmental flow methods on flow alteration and energy production in a run-of-river hydropower plant

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing demand for renewable energy has led to a massive expansion of the small-scale
hydropower plants and particularly those of run-of-river type. Meanwhile, the awareness …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing towards functional environmental flows for temperate floodplain rivers

DS Hayes, JM Brändle, C Seliger, B Zeiringer… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstraction, diversion, and storage of flow alter rivers worldwide. In this context, minimum
flow regulations are applied to mitigate adverse impacts and to protect affected river reaches …

The abundance and distribution of guilds of riparian woody plants change in response to land use and flow regulation

FC Aguiar, P Segurado, MJ Martins… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many riparian ecosystems in Mediterranean Europe are affected by land use and flow
alteration by dams. We focused on understanding how these stressors and their …

River ecosystem endangerment from climate change-driven regulated flow regimes

RP Rivaes, MJ Feio, SFP Almeida, AR Calapez… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major threats of freshwater systems are river damming and habitat degradation, further
amplified by climate change, another major driver of biodiversity loss. This study aims to …

The impact of stress factors on riparian and drawdown zones degradation around dams and reservoirs

M Arif, Z Jie, M Tahir, H Xin… - Land Degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is currently a lack of evidence about changes in the health of riparian and drawdown
zones under different land‐use patterns within mega‐reservoirs, below and around dams …

[HTML][HTML] When does vegetation establish on gravel bars? Observations and modeling in the Alpine Rhine river

F Caponi, A Koch, W Bertoldi, DF Vetsch… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Predicting when riparian vegetation establishes on river bars is crucial to estimate how
morphology and ecology of gravel bed rivers respond to anthropogenic or climatic changes …

Environmental flow scenarios for a regulated river system: Projecting catchment‐wide ecosystem benefits and consequences for hydroelectric production

Å Widén, B Malm Renöfält, E Degerman… - Water resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To enable prioritization among measures for ecological restoration, knowing the expected
benefits and consequences of implementation is imperative but rarely explicitly quantified …

A study on a river health assessment method based on ecological flow

D Ma, W Luo, G Yang, J Lu, Y Fan - Ecological modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to facilitate watershed management, we developed an expansive river health
assessment method based on ecological flow hydrology method in this study that estimates …