More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers

B Belletti, C Garcia de Leaniz, J Jones, S Bizzi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Rivers support some of Earth's richest biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services
to society, but they are often fragmented by barriers to free flow. In Europe, attempts to …

Operational methods for prioritizing the removal of river barriers: Synthesis and guidance

CG de Leaniz, JR O'Hanley - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Barrier removal can be an efficient method to restore river continuity but resources available
for defragmenting rivers are limited and a prioritization strategy is needed. We review …

Modelling remote barrier detection to achieve free-flowing river targets

MV Parks, CG de Leaniz, PE Jones… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Fragmentation caused by artificial barriers is one of the main stressors of rivers worldwide.
However, many barrier inventories only record large barriers, which underestimates barrier …

Stream Barrier Removal: Are New Approaches Possible in Small Rivers? The Case of the Selho River (Northwestern Portugal)

F Costa, A Vieira - Hydrology, 2023 - mdpi.com
The identification and characterization of barriers to river continuity are essential for the
preparation of an inventory of hydraulic infrastructure. To this end, it is necessary to define …

[HTML][HTML] Best practices for selecting barriers within European catchments

C Garcia de Leaniz, J O'Hanley - 2021 - kar.kent.ac.uk
With over 1.2 million dams and other instream barriers, Europe has possibly the most
fragmented rivers in the world, but also the opportunity to benefit enormously from barrier …

Broken rivers: ground-truthing the world's most fragmented rivers

CG de Leaniz - Authorea Preprints, 2020 - essopenarchive.org
Rivers support some of Earth's richest biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services
to society, but only if they flow. In Europe, attempts to quantify river connectivity have been …

[PDF][PDF] Best practices for selecting barriers within European catchments

CG de Leaniz, J O'Hanley - 2021 - openrivers.eu
With over 1.2 million dams and other instream barriers, Europe has possibly the most
fragmented rivers in the world, but also the opportunity to benefit enormously from barrier …

[PDF][PDF] REMOÇÃO DE BARREIRAS FLUVIAIS: UMA PROPOSTA METODOLÓGICA PARA OS AÇUDES NO RIO SELHO (NOROESTE DE PORTUGAL)

F Costa, A Vieira, C Ribeiro - files.abrhidro.org.br
The identification and characterization of barriers to river continuity are essential for the
preparation of an inventory of hydraulic infrastructure. To this end, it is necessary to define …