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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zarfl C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898151 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20191206 1
Dam construction comes with severe social, economic and ecological impacts. From an ecological point of view, habitat types are altered and biodiversity is lost. Thus, to identify areas that deserve major attention for conservation, existing and planned locations for (hydropower) dams were overlapped, at global extent, with the contemporary distribution of freshwater megafauna species with consideration of their respective threat status. Hydropower development will disproportionately impact area ...[more]