Overcoming Information Limitations for the Prescription of an Environmental Flow Regime for a Central American River
Hydropower dam construction is expanding rapidly in Central America because of the increasing demand for electricity. Although hydropower can provide a low-carbon source of energy, dams can also degrade socially valued riverine and riparian ecosystems and the services they provide. Such degradation...
Main Authors: | Peter C. Esselman, Jeffrey J. Opperman |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Resilience Alliance
2010-03-01
|
Series: | Ecology and Society |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss1/art6/ |
Similar Items
-
Contrasting fish size distributions between Neotropical run-of-river and storage reservoirs
by: Louise Cristina Gomes, et al.
Published: (2018-04-01) -
Hydropeaking by Small Hydropower Facilities Affects Flow Regimes on Tributaries to the Pantanal Wetland of Brazil
by: Juliane Stella M. C. de Figueiredo, et al.
Published: (2021-03-01) -
Fish assemblages associated with aquatic macrophytes in floodplain lakes in the Lower Solimões River
by: Káren Lorena Lôbo Prado, et al.
Published: (2010-03-01) -
HYDROELECTRIC DAMS FROM MADEIRA RIVER SEASONALLY IMPACTS THE FISHERIES PRODUCTION IN THE GUAPORÉ BASIN (RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL)
by: Helen Cristina PARAZZI de Freitas, et al.
Published: (2021-03-01) -
Effects of the hydrological regime on the ichthyofauna of riverine environments of the Upper Paraná River floodplain
by: R. Fernandes, et al.