Hydropower is currently experiencing a boom in southeast Europe. For Romania, the
number of hydropower plants is estimated to be between 545 and 674, but little has been …

River damming has brought great benefits to flood mitigation, energy and food production,
and will continue to play a significant role in global energy supply, particularly in Asia, Africa …

It is established that dams decrease river connectivity; however, previous global scale
studies of river fragmentation focused on a small subset of the largest dams. In the United …

Anthropogenic alteration of physical habitat structure in streams and rivers is increasingly
recognized as a major cause of impairment worldwide. As part of their assessment of the …

Auxiliary information in the form of species abundance is frequently available as part of data
collected for ecological investigations, yet when modeling distributions of species over large …

Artificial barriers are one of the main threats to river ecosystems, resulting in habitat
fragmentation and loss of connectivity. Yet, the abundance and distribution of most artificial …

Rigorous assessments of the ecological condition of water resources and the effect of
human activities on those waters require quantitative physical, chemical, and biological …

National and regional ecological assessments are essential for making rational decisions
concerning water body conservation and management at those spatial extents. We analyzed …

Global warming is affecting animal populations worldwide, through chronic temperature
increases and an increase in the frequency of extreme heatwave events. Reservoirs are …

Ongoing and projected climate change is likely to greatly alter co-occurring stressor
mechanisms, yet these potential interactions remain poorly understood in natural freshwater …