Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion

S. Flecker, Alexander; Shi, Qinru; M. Almeida, Rafael; Angarita, Héctor; M. Gomes-Selman, Jonathan; García-Villacorta, Roosevelt; A. Sethi, Suresh; A. Thomas, Steven; LeRoy Poff, N.; R. Forsberg, Bruce; A. Heilpern, Sebastian; K. Hamilton, Stephen; D. Abad, Jorge; P. Anderson, Elizabeth; Barros, Nathan; Carolina Bernal, Isabel; Bernstein, Richard; M. Cañas, Carlos; Dangles, Olivier; C. Encalada, Andrea; S. Fleischmann, Ayan; Goulding, Michael; Higgins, Jonathan; Jézéquel, Céline; I. Larson, Erin; B. McIntyre, Peter; M. Melack, John; Montoya, Mariana; Oberdorff, Thierry; Paiva, Rodrigo; Perez, Guillaume; H. Rappazzo, Brendan; Steinschneider, Scott; Torres, Sandra; Varese, Mariana; Todd Walter, M.; Wu, Xiaojian; Xue, Yexiang; E. Zapata-Ríos, Xavier; P. Gomes, Carla

doi:10.1126/science.abj4017

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Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion

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Authors:

Alexander S. Flecker

Qinru Shi

Rafael M. Almeida

Abstract

Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth’s largest and most biodiverse river basin. These services are spatially variable, hence collective impacts of newly built dams de...

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