ArticleNature communications2021
Vanishing weekly hydropeaking cycles in American and Canadian rivers.
Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The Further You Are, the Closer You Get: Environmental Similarity Connects Aquatic Invertebrate Communities Across the Terrestrial Landscape in a Large River Network.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Hydropeaking strands and displaces larval and juvenile fish across species.Communications earth & environment · 2026Article
- Experimental reductions in subdaily flow fluctuations increased gross primary productivity for 425 river kilometers downstream.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Changing weekend effects of air pollutants in Beijing under 2020 COVID-19 lockdown controls.npj urban sustainability · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sub-daily and weekly flow cycles termed 'hydropeaking' are common features in regulated rivers worldwide. Weekly flow periodicity arises from fluctuating electricity demand and production tied to socioeconomic activity, typically with higher consumption during weekdays followed by reductions on weekends. Here, we propose a weekly hydropeaking index to quantify the 1920-2019 intensity and prevalence of weekly hydropeaking cycles at 500 sites across the United States of America and Canada. A robust weekly hydropeaking signal exists at 1.8% of sites starting in 1920, peaking at 18.9% in 1963, and diminishing to 3.1% in 2019, marking a 21st century decline in weekly hydropeaking intensity. We propose this decline may be tied to recent, above-average precipitation, socioeconomic shifts, alternative energy production, and legislative and policy changes impacting water management in regulated systems. Vanishing weekly hydropeaking cycles may offset some of the prior deleterious ecohydrological impacts from hydropeaking in highly regulated rivers.
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