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Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin
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More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that will affect the Amazon basin’s floodplains, estuary and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of da...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted manuscript
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- 10.1038/nature22333
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LLILAS-Mellon
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Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 546
- Issue:
- 7658
- Pages:
- 363-369
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-30
- DOI:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
- Pubs id:
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pubs:701142
- URN:
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uri:12edd609-9414-482e-86c1-0c2595292623
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uuid:12edd609-9414-482e-86c1-0c2595292623
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- pubs:701142
- Paper number:
- 7658
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- © 2017 Latrubesse, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Nature Publishing Group at: 10.1038/nature22333
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