Vulnerability of the biota in riverine and seasonally flooded habitats to damming of Amazonian rivers

• Main Authors: Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel, d'Horta, Fernando M., Ribas, Camila C., Wittmann, Florian, Zuanon, Jansen, Park, Edward, Dunne, Thomas, Arima, Eugenio Y., Baker, Paul A.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Amazon; Dams
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161792
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The extent and intensity of impacts of multiple new dams in the Amazon basin on specific biological groups are potentially large, but still uncertain and need to be better understood. It is known that river disruption and regulation by dams may affect sediment supplies, river channel migration, floo...