The impacts of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin: A review

A Soukhaphon, IG Baird, ZS Hogan - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Mekong River, well known for its aquatic biodiversity, is important to the social, physical,
and economic health of millions living in China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and …

Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

M Saccò, S Mammola, F Altermatt, R Alther… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater is a vital ecosystem of the global water cycle, hosting unique biodiversity and
providing essential services to societies. Despite being the largest unfrozen freshwater …

Land use and land cover changes and its impact on soil erosion in Stung Sangkae catchment of Cambodia

N Nut, M Mihara, J Jeong, B Ngo, G Sigua, PVV Prasad… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agricultural expansion and urban development without proper soil erosion control measures
have become major environmental problems in Cambodia. Due to a high population growth …

Fish biodiversity declines with dam development in the Lower Mekong Basin

R Sor, PB Ngor, S Lek, K Chann, R Khoeun… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Hydropower dams are a source of renewable energy, but dam development and
hydropower generation negatively affect freshwater ecosystems, biodiversity, and food …

Uncompensated losses and damaged livelihoods: Restorative and distributional injustices in Brazilian hydropower

A Mayer, MC Lopez, EF Moran - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The construction of hydroelectric dams is associated with a range of social-ecological
impacts, including significant changes in the economies of rural places where large dams …

Long-term data show alarming decline of majority of fish species in a Lower Mekong basin fishery

M Chevalier, PB Ngor, K Pin, B Touch, S Lek… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overexploitation, habitat fragmentation, and flow alteration are major threats to freshwater
biodiversity that can lead to fisheries collapse and species extinction. These threats are …

Water quality degradation in the lower mekong basin

R Sor, PB Ngor, S Soum, S Chandra, ZS Hogan… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Mekong River is one of the world's largest rivers, unparalleled in terms of its biodiversity
and ecosystem services. As in other regions, sufficient water quality is required to support …

Drivers of tropical deforestation: a global review of methodological approaches and analytical scales

KP Bernhard, AC Shapiro, CA Hunt - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2024 - Springer
Recent studies identifying underlying and proximate drivers of tropical deforestation and
forest degradation have applied a multitude of methodologies, with varying and sometimes …

High rates of daytime river metabolism are an underestimated component of carbon cycling

F Tromboni, ER Hotchkiss, AE Schechner… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
River metabolism and, thus, carbon cycling are governed by gross primary production and
ecosystem respiration. Traditionally river metabolism is derived from diel dissolved oxygen …

Riverine food environments and food security: a case study of the Mekong River, Cambodia

S Manohar, S Downs, S Shaikh, S Mak… - Bulletin of the World …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rivers are critical, but often overlooked, parts of food systems. They have multiple functions
that support the food security, nutrition, health and livelihoods of the communities …