Basic Principles and Ecological Consequences of Altered Flow Regimes for Aquatic Biodiversity

By Stuart E. Bunn, A. Arthington. Environmental Management, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology

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Mechanistic effects of low-flow hydrology on riverine ecosystems: ecological principles and consequences of alteration (2012, background): “Alterations to the natural flow regime affect the structure and function of rivers and wetlands and contribute to loss of biodiversity worldwide (Bunn and Arthington 2002).”
Beyond the natural flow regime? Broadening the hydro‐ecological foundation to meet environmental flows challenges in a non‐stationary world (2018, background): “…that human-caused changes in flow regime can modify time-varying habitat availability, life history cues for species, and habitat-specific species interactions, and thus cause declines in species performance and impairment of ecological processes and ecosystem functions (Bunn & Arthington, 2002).”
River and wetland food webs in Australia's wet–dry tropics: general principles and implications for management (2005, background): “To a large extent, the flow regime is a key driver of such exchanges of organisms and their food resources within streams and rivers and also between them and their associated riparian and floodplain systems (Bunn and Arthington 2002).”
Hydrogeomorphology and river impoundment affect food-chain length of diverse Neotropical food webs (2008, background): “Hydrologic regimes are key drivers of lotic ecosystem dynamics, and anthropogenic alterations of hydrologic regimes have strong and complex ecological impacts (Bunn and Arthington 2002).”
Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities: Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers (2010, background): “…flood frequency, timing and duration, and other dimensions of flow history and recent flow events (Junk, Bayley & Sparks, 1989; Poff et al., 1997; Richter et al., 1997; Bunn & Arthington, 2002; Naiman et al., 2002; Nilsson & Svedmark, 2002; Pinay, Clément & Naiman, 2002; Lytle & Poff, 2004).”
River Rehabilitation for Conservation of Fish Biodiversity in Monsoonal Asia (2005, background): “…biota, and their influence as drivers of freshwater biodiversity loss is projected to increase substantially (Sala et al. 2000), in part because exotic species are more successful in habitats that have already been modified or degraded by humans (e.g., Bunn and Arthington 2002, Koehn 2004).”
Flow Management for Hydropower Extirpates Aquatic Insects, Undermining River Food Webs (2016, background): “However, far less is known about the specific mechanisms underlying downstream ecological responses to hydrologic flow modification (Bunn and Arthington 2002, Poff and Zimmerman 2010).”
Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges (2010, neutral): “2], Bunn and Arthington 2002).”
Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages (2006, background): “The influence of flow on riverine assemblages (reviews in Galat et al. 1998, Bunn and Arthington 2002) and the threat posed by flow alterations to the ecological sustainability and functioning of rivers and floodplain wetlands has been increasingly recognized (Poff et al. 1997).”
Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies (2014, background): “considered as individual research subjects for specific cases (81-84) or recommended more generically (85), but there is a lack of methods for addressing these in LCA.”
Impact of hydropeaking on hyporheic invertebrates in an Alpine stream (Trentino, Italy) (2009, background): “In fact, the changes in flow regime associated with sharp discharge fluctuations when water is released from the hydropower plants into the streams (hydropeaking) have cascading effects on the ecological integrity of riverine ecosystems (Bunn and Arthington, 2002).”