Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
| Autor: | Paulo Petry, James S. Albert, John G. Lundberg, Mark Mulligan, Alberto Akama, G. Torrente Vilara, Ian G. Baird, A. van Soesbergen, Miguel Petrere, David J. Hoeinghaus, John P. Sullivan, Fernando Mayer Pelicice, Aaron A. Koning, Jansen Zuanon, Renato A. M. Silvano, Eric Baran, Caroline C. Arantes, Nathan K. Lujan, Peter B. McIntyre, S Nam, William Darwall, Kirk O. Winemiller, Mark H. Sabaj, Carla Simone Pavanelli, Luiz Carlos Gomes, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Angelo Antonio Agostinho, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Michele Thieme, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, C Ou, Jos Snoeks, Christiane Zarfl, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Ian Harrison, Leonardo Sáenz, Leandro Castello, Leandro M. Sousa, W Rainboth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Multidisciplinary River ecosystem Land use business.industry Amazon rainforest 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Biodiversity 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Environmental data Ecosystem services Environmental protection Sustainability business Environmental planning Hydropower |
| Zdroj: | Winemiller, K O, McIntyre, P B, Castello, L, Fluet-Chouinard, E, Giarrizzo, T, Nam, S, Baird, I G, Darwall, W, Lujan, N K, Harrison, I, Stiassny, M L J, Silvano, R A M, Fitzgerald, D B, Pelicice, F M, Agostinho, A A, Gomes, L C, Albert, J S, Baran, E, Petrere, M, Zarfl, C, Mulligan, M, Sullivan, J P, Arantes, C C, Sousa, L M, Koning, A A, Hoeinghaus, D J, Sabaj, M, Lundberg, J G, Armbruster, J, Thieme, M L, Petry, P, Zuanon, J, Vilara, G T, Snoeks, J, Ou, C, Rainboth, W, Pavanelli, C S, Akama, A, Soesbergen, A V & Sáenz, L 2016, ' Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong ', Science, vol. 351, no. 6269, pp. 128-129 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7082 Repositório Institucional do INPA Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) instacron:INPA |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.aac7082 |
| Popis: | The world's most biodiverse river basins—the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong—are experiencing an unprecedented boom in construction of hydropower dams. These projects address important energy needs, but advocates often overestimate economic benefits and underestimate far-reaching effects on biodiversity and critically important fisheries. Powerful new analytical tools and high-resolution environmental data can clarify trade-offs between engineering and environmental goals and can enable governments and funding institutions to compare alternative sites for dam building. Current site-specific assessment protocols largely ignore cumulative impacts on hydrology and ecosystem services as ever more dams are constructed within a watershed ( 1 ). To achieve true sustainability, assessments of new projects must go beyond local impacts by accounting for synergies with existing dams, as well as land cover changes and likely climatic shifts ( 2 , 3 ). We call for more sophisticated and holistic hydropower planning, including validation of technologies intended to mitigate environmental impacts. Should anything less be required when tampering with the world's great river ecosystems? |
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