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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Yali Li, Hongjuan Zhang, Mengzhu Liu and Hongwei Pei
Reclamation of treated sewage is an important way to alleviate urban water scarcity and optimize ecological layout, especially in irrigating urban turfgrass. Nevertheless, the irrational use of reclaimed sewage could result in risk of excessive nitrogen ...
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Feng Cai, Zhinan Hu, Beihan Jiang, Weifang Ruan, Shujuan Cai and Huiling Zou
This study aimed to effectively evaluate the ecological restoration of the river reach where a small hydropower station was retired or renovated. An ecological health index system was constructed based on the environmental characteristics of the upstream...
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Franklin Paredes-Trejo, Barlin O. Olivares, Yair Movil-Fuentes, Juan Arevalo-Groening and Alfredo Gil
Droughts impact the water cycle, ecological balance, and socio-economic development in various regions around the world. The Orinoco River Basin is a region highly susceptible to droughts. The basin supports diverse ecosystems and supplies valuable resou...
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Feng Zhou, Wanshun Zhang, Xin Liu, Anna Jiang, Gang Chen, Ao Li and Hong Peng
Terraces play a crucial role in regulating the water cycle. The management and restoration of, and the conservation strategies and plans for basins rely heavily on the assessment of alterations in hydrological characteristics, whether natural or man-made...
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Dan Wang, Shuanghu Zhang, Guoli Wang, Jingjing Gu, Hao Wang and Xiaoting Chen
Hydrological processes regulate the ecological processes of a basin. Climate change and anthropological activities lead to changes in the natural hydrological process of rivers, whereas variations in hydrological processes can disrupt the stability of ec...
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Jung-Eun Gu, Joongu Kang and Sang Hwa Jung
Fluvial biological habitat types are classified using the diversity in physical characteristics of a water channel. Recent ecological management studies have highlighted the potential of underwater sound as a quantitative indicator of habitat characteris...
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Wenmin Chen, Xihao Zhang, Jiaquan Zhang, Ning Duan, Xiangyi Gong, Shan Liu, Changlin Zhan, Wei Chen and Xinli Xing
In this study, to investigate the contamination characteristics and potential health implications of heavy metals in road dust of the typical county in central China, heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, V, Pb, Zn) in typical road dust with large traffi...
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Ivan Gospic, Ivana Martic, Nastia Degiuli and Andrea Farkas
One of the short-term operational measures for fuel savings and reducing CO2 emissions from ships at sea is sailing at reduced speed, i.e., slow steaming, while the gasification of the ship represents an important mid-term technical measure. In this stud...
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James Slingsby, Beth E. Scott, Louise Kregting, Jason McIlvenny, Jared Wilson, Ana Couto, Deon Roos, Marion Yanez and Benjamin J. Williamson
High-flow tidal stream environments, targeted for tidal turbine installations, exhibit turbulent features, at fine spatio-temporal scales (metres and seconds), created by site-specific topography and bathymetry. Bed-derived turbulent features (kolk-boils...
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