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<p>This study was carried out in selected districts of Mashonaland, East and Central provinces of Zimbabwe in 2011 to determine the environmental impacts of earth dam failures and spillway malfunctions with regards to soil erosion. A total of 14 earth dams ...
Reference: Vol. 3 (5), pp. 177-186, August 2013
Our study aimed to identify patterns of temporal variation and changes in the structure of the community of Chironomidae larvae in two rivers in the Upper Paraná River floodplain after the construction of a reservoir upstream (Porto Primavera). Samples were ...
Reference: Braz. J. Biol., 69 (2, Suppl.): 591-608, 2009
<p>Dams have one of the most important roles in utilizing water resources. They were started to construct long years before gaining present information about hydrology and hydromechanics.<br />Dams have a great deal of positive and negative effects on the ...
Reference: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT
<p>For the assessment of ecohydrological effects of dam construction in headwater regions an evaluation method is presented based on the socalled "ecological risk assessment". This method allows the determination of the spatially detailed ecological risk for ...
Reference: Hydrology, Water Resources and Ecology in Headwaters (Proceedings of the HeadWater'98 Conference held at Meran/Merano, Italy, April 1998). IAHS Publ. no. 248, 1998
<p>Rivers transport sediment from eroding uplands to depositional areas near sea level. If the continuity of sediment transport is interrupted by dams or removal of sediment from the channel by gravel mining, the flow may become sediment-starved (hungry water) ...
Reference: Environmental Management Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 533–551