Purpose - This study aims to assess how small check dams built across rivers in India's drylands can revitalize rivers during dry season and mitigate local climate change consequences. The surface-and groundwater resources are increasingly under pressure throughout India. The imminent climate change...
Dams and reservoirs and their up- and downstream propagation of fragmentation and flow regulation are the leading contributors to the loss of river connectivity. By applying a new method to quantify riverine connectivity and map FFRs, we provide a foundation for concerted global and national ...
In the case of hydroelectric dams (Fig. 9), their reservoirs gradually lose their active storage capacity – the Sanmenxia (China) and Mead (Hoover Dam, USA) reservoirs lose annually approximately 1.7% and 0.3%, respectively (Sloff 1991)– flood storage capacity is reduced, equipment is ...
The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) – Part 2: Quality control, time-series indices and homogeneity assessment. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 10, 787–804 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Lehner, B. et al. High‐resolution mapping of the world’s reservoirs and dams for ...
Fish and other fishery resources are representing most important faunal components in the riverine ecosystem by virtue of their vivid presence and functional roles towards stability of the lotic ecosystem. They are in utmost need of protection and conser
Many rivers have been modified to enhance their navigability by dredging, stabilising river banks and building dams and barrages for regulating the flow of water.
The map shows areas of soil degradation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, as well as the locations where agriculture is a major source of water contamination. The environmental impacts of tourism in the basin are concentrated in the major cities such as Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende and León, ...
In fact, there are many dams in the São Francisco Basin, and disasters have already happened there, such as the Herculano Mining disaster in the municipality of Itabirito in 2014. The São Francisco Basin has at least 41 dams retaining reservoirs of mining waste containing iron, gold and...
The ecological conservation of large rivers is impossible unless immediate attention is given to protecting their small tributaries at local levels. The natural boundaries of large river basins are shrinking because their tributaries and streams of diffe
Lateral carbon transfer along the land-ocean continuum is a key component of global carbon cycle, yet its response to global change is poorly quantified. Here, we use a land-surface model to simulate vertical (soil-plant-atmosphere) and lateral (land-river-ocean) carbon exchanges in Europe bet...