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SUBMITTER: Pokhrel Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288158 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pokhrel Yadu Y Shin Sanghoon S Lin Zihan Z Yamazaki Dai D Qi Jiaguo J
Scientific reports 20181210 1
The Mekong River Basin (MRB) is undergoing unprecedented changes due to the recent acceleration in large-scale dam construction. While the hydrology of the MRB is well understood and the effects of some of the existing dams have been studied, the potential effects of the planned dams on flood pulse dynamics over the entire Lower Mekong remains unexamined. Here, using hydrodynamic model simulations, we show that the effects of flow regulation on downstream river-floodplain dynamics are relatively ...[more]