ArticleScience advances2017
The changing hydrology of a dammed Amazon.
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27 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The Andes-Amazon-Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social-ecological system sustainability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Can restoring water and sediment fluxes across a mega-dam cascade alleviate a sinking river delta?Science advances · 2024Article
- Local-Scale Damming Impact on the Planktonic Bacterial and Eukaryotic Assemblages in the upper Yangtze River.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Eco-morphodynamic carbon pumping by the largest rivers in the Neotropics.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The color of environmental noise in river networks.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Fragmentation by major dams and implications for the future viability of platypus populations.Communications biology · 2022Article
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- Vanishing weekly hydropeaking cycles in American and Canadian rivers.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Fishway in hydropower dams: a scientometric analysis.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Conservation threats and future prospects for the freshwater fishes of Ecuador: A hotspot of Neotropical fish diversity.Journal of fish biology · 2021Review
- Impacts of streamflow alteration on benthic macroinvertebrates by mini-hydro diversion in Sri Lanka.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Mega-dams and extreme rainfall: Disentangling the drivers of extensive impacts of a large flooding event on Amazon Forests.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Developing countries around the world are expanding hydropower to meet growing energy demand. In the Brazilian Amazon, >200 dams are planned over the next 30 years, and questions about the impacts of current and future hydropower in this globally important watershed remain unanswered. In this context, we applied a hydrologic indicator method to quantify how existing Amazon dams have altered the natural flow regime and to identify predictors of alteration. The type and magnitude of hydrologic alteration varied widely by dam, but the largest changes were to critical characteristics of the flood pulse. Impacts were largest for low-elevation, large-reservoir dams; however, small dams had enormous impacts relative to electricity production. Finally, the "cumulative" effect of multiple dams was significant but only for some aspects of the flow regime. This analysis is a first step toward the development of environmental flows plans and policies relevant to the Amazon and other megadiverse river basins.
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