Impacts of Stressors on Riparian Health Indicators in the Upper and Lower Indus River Basins in Pakistan.

Amin Hira, Muhammad Arif, Nowsherwan Zarif, Zarmina Gul, Xiangyue Liu, Yukun Cao

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amin HiraDepartment of Forestry Economics & Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.

Muhammad ArifBiological Science Research Center, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0359-5161

Nowsherwan ZarifPakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-5486-6104

Zarmina GulCollege of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Resource Utilization, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8348-528X

Xiangyue LiuDepartment of Forestry Economics & Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.

Yukun CaoDepartment of Forestry Economics & Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.

Northeast Forestry University · CNSouthwest University · CN

Funding

Northeast Forestry University 21GLA449Southwest University QN2022168001L

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Riparian zones along rivers and streams provide ecosystem services that may change over time as disturbances increase and deteriorate these buffer zones globally. The effect of stressors on ecosystem services along the rivers in underdeveloped countries is unclear, which impacts the environment directly in the form of riparian health indicators (RHIs). This study fills this gap and measures the impact of stressors on RHIs (parameters of habitat, plant cover, regeneration, exotics, and erosion) in the Indus River basin (IRB) in Pakistan. Data on 11 stressors and 27 RHIs were collected using a field-based approach in 269 transects in the upper and lower Indus basins (UIB and LIB) in 2020 and analyzed using multivariate statistical methods. The Kruskal-Wallis tests (

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EcosystemRiversEnvironmental MonitoringPakistanPlantsecosystem functionenvironmental indicatorsIndus Riverpressure indicatorsrapid appraisalriparian health assessmentTerbela Dam Reservoir

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PMID36293824

DOI10.3390/ijerph192013239

PMCPMC9603529

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