High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Assessment of the sustainability of Gymnocypris eckloni habitat under river damming in the source region of the Yellow River

Q Quan, S Gao, Y Shang, B Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The growth of indigenous fish resources in the source region of a river is dependent upon
the protection and sustainable development of suitable habitats, and the dual effects of …

Anthropogenic barriers to longitudinal river connectivity in Greece: A review

A Panagiotou, S Zogaris, E Dimitriou… - Ecohydrology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
An inventory of anthropogenic barriers to longitudinal river connectivity in Greece is
presented based on an extensive literature review. We mapped Greece's 275 major dams …

Small hydropower plants proliferation and fluvial ecosystem conservation nexus

A Kuriqi, J Jurasz - Complementarity of variable renewable energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever-growing energy demand and transition towards renewable energy have led to a global
boom of Small Hydropower Plants (SHPs). Small hydropower plants, particularly run-of …

Development of a comprehensive framework for assessing the impacts of climate change and dam construction on flow regimes

T Cui, F Tian, T Yang, J Wen, MYA Khan - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The undeniable fact of climate change and dam construction alters the hydrological systems
and threatens aquatic ecosystems of rivers around the world. Quantifying the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change effects on hatching success and embryonic development of fish: Assessing multiple stressor responses in a large-scale mesocosm study

R Wild, C Nagel, J Geist - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change threatens freshwater fish species due to predicted changes in thermal,
sedimentary and hydrological properties of stream ecosystems. Gravel-spawning fish are …

Assessment of future hydrologic alteration due to climate change in the Aracthos River basin (NW Greece)

A López-Ballesteros, J Senent-Aparicio… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a worldwide reality with significant effects on hydrological processes. It
has already produce alterations in streamflow regime and is expected to continue in the …

Climate change and water‐related ecosystem services: impacts of drought in california, usa

H Chang, MR Bonnette - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2016 - spj.science.org
We investigated the potential impacts of climate change on water‐related ecosystem
services (). Based on the review of the recent literature, we concluded that climate change …

Unravelling precipitation trends in Greece since 1950s using ERA5 climate reanalysis data

G Varlas, K Stefanidis, G Papaioannou… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Precipitation is one of the most variable climatic parameters, as it is determined by many
physical processes. The spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation have been …

Determination of environmental flows in rivers using an integrated hydrological-hydrodynamic-habitat modelling approach

A Stamou, A Polydera, G Papadonikolaki… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose the novel integrated modelling procedure 3H-EMC for the determination of the
environmental flow in rivers and streams; 3H-EMC combines Hydrological, Hydrodynamic …