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Young-Seuk Park and Soon-Jin Hwang
Ecological monitoring and assessment is fundamental for effective management of ecosystems. As an introduction to this Special Issue, this editorial provides an overview of ?Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems?. This i...
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Timothy Kittel,Sara Howard,Hannah Horn,Gwen M. Kittel,Matthew Fairbarns,Pierre Iachetti
We present a vulnerability-based approach for considering climate as a threat in regional conservation planning. The protocol is based on best available understanding of the climate sensitivity of species and systems of concern, has little reliance...
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Maria Isabel Velez, Daniel Conde, Juan Pablo Lozoya, James Anthony Rusak, Felipe García-Rodríguez, Carina Seitz, Thomas Harmon, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo, Jaime Escobar and Sandra Patricia Vilardy
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are increasingly being used in conservation biology, ecosystem management, and evaluations of ecosystem services (ES), but their potential to contribute to the ES risk assessment process has not been explored. We propos...
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Dehao Tang, Xingjian Liu, Xutao Wang and Kedong Yin
Rivers and reservoirs in urban areas have been associated with environmental quality problems because of the discharge of domestic waste into water bodies. However, the key effects and the extent to which environmental factors can influence the integrate...
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Michele Menghini, Roberta Pedrazzani, Donatella Feretti, Giovanna Mazzoleni, Nathalie Steimberg, Chiara Urani, Ilaria Zerbini and Giorgio Bertanza
The assessment of the environmental footprint of an organization or product is based on methods published by the European Union Joint Research Centre, which take 16 impact areas into account. Among the listed categories are human and freshwater ecosystem...
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Qubin Qin, Jian Shen, Troy D. Tuckey, Xun Cai and Jilian Xiong
Municipal intakes of surface water have various uses, and their impacts on the aquatic environment and ecosystem, such as the impingement and entrainment of ichthyoplankton, are a major concern. A robust assessment of the intake impacts on ichthyoplankto...
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Bruna Almeida and Pedro Cabral
The spatially explicit assessment of freshwater is key to introduce the ecosystem services (ES) concept into decision-making processes. Many tools are being developed to model water balance and to analyze the effects of meteorological conditions on water...
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Pierre Iachetti,Sara Grace Howard
Ecoregional assessments provide a regional scale, biodiversity-based context for implementing conservation efforts by identifying a portfolio of sites for conservation action with a goal of protecting representative biodiversity and ecologically signific...
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Yogesh Khare, Ghinwa Melodie Naja, G. Andrew Stainback, Christopher J. Martinez, Rajendra Paudel and Thomas Van Lent
Achieving total phosphorus (TP) total maximum daily loads (TMDL) for Lake Okeechobee (Florida, FL, USA), a large freshwater lake, is a key component of the greater Everglades ecosystem restoration and sustainability of south Florida. This study was aimed...
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Songpu Shang and Songhao Shang
The determination of the rational minimum ecological water level is the base for the protection of ecosystems in shrinking lakes and wetlands. Based on the lake surface area method, a simplified lake surface area method was proposed to define the minimum...
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Heleen Jalink and Carel Dieperink
In times of climate change, periods of drought will occur more frequently. This causes challenges for water use, ranging from limitations on the navigability of water courses, limited availability of water for irrigation and drinking water supply, reduce...
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Kristina M. Chomiak, Wendy A. Owens-Rios, Carmella M. Bangkong, Steven W. Day, Nathan C. Eddingsaas, Matthew J. Hoffman, André O. Hudson and Anna Christina Tyler
Plastic debris is a growing threat in freshwater ecosystems and transport models predict that many plastics will sink to the benthos. Among the most common plastics found in the Laurentian Great Lakes sediments are polyethylene terephthalate (especially ...
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Diana Derepasko, Felix Witing, Francisco J. Peñas, José Barquín and Martin Volk
The degree of success of river water diversion planning decisions is affected by uncertain environmental conditions. The adaptive water management framework incorporates this uncertainty at all stages of management. While the most effective form of adapt...
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Amartya K. Saha, Japhet Kashaigili, Fredrick Mashingia, Halima Kiwango, Mercy Asha Mohamed, Michael Kimaro, Mathias Msafiri Igulu, Patroba Matiku, Rosemary Masikini, Rashid Tamatamah, Ismail Omary, Tumaini Magesa, Pendo Hyera, Roman Evarist and Maria C. Donoso
Land use changes and mounting water demands reduce freshwater inflows into estuaries, impairing estuarine ecosystems and accelerating coastal seawater intrusion. However, determining minimum river inflows for management guidelines is hampered by a lack o...
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Triantafyllia-Maria Perivolioti, Antonios Mouratidis, Dimitrios Terzopoulos, Panagiotis Kalaitzis, Dimitrios Ampatzidis, Michal Tu?er, Jaroslava Frouzova and Dimitra Bobori
Covering an area of approximately 97 km2 and with a maximum depth of 58 m, Lake Trichonis is the largest and one of the deepest natural lakes in Greece. As such, it constitutes an important ecosystem and freshwater reserve at the regional scale, whose qu...
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Chantha Oeurng, Thomas A. Cochrane, Sarit Chung, Mathias G. Kondolf, Thanapon Piman and Mauricio E. Arias
The Tonle Sap is the most fertile and diverse freshwater ecosystem in Southeast Asia, receiving nurturing water flows from the Mekong and its immediate basin. In addition to rapid development in the Tonle Sap basin, climate change may threaten natural fl...
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Yung-Chul Jun, Nan-Young Kim, Sang-Hun Kim, Young-Seuk Park, Dong-Soo Kong, Soon-Jin Hwang
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Conserving and enhancing freshwater biodiversity are global issues to ensure ecosystem integrity and sustainability. To meet this, it is critical to understand how the biological assemblages are determined by environmental gradients in different spatial ...
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