River habitat assessment and restoration in high dam flood discharge systems with total dissolved gas supersaturation

P Zhang, Q Liu, Y Wang, DZ Zhu, R Liang, L Qin, R Li… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The success of river habitat restoration relies on accurate assessment proxies. However,
determining how to quantitatively assess the impact of multiple stressors during flood …

Ecology-habitat-flow modular simulation model for the recommendation of river ecological flow combination

Y Meng, W Xu, X Guan, M Guo, X Wang… - Environmental Modelling & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The scientific determination of ecological flow can rationalize and specify the needs of river
health in light of the current orientation toward ecologically oriented water management. We …

Simplex quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization algorithm with application to ecological operation of cascade hydropower reservoirs

Y Xia, Z Feng, W Niu, H Qin, Z Jiang, J Zhou - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
With growing attentions paid to ecological protection in recent years, the ecological
operation of cascade hydropower reservoirs is becoming an increasingly significant problem …

Does drifting passage need to be linked to fish habitat assessment? Assessing environmental flow for multiple fish species with different spawning patterns with a …

P Zhang, Q Liu, Y Wang, K Li, L Qin, R Liang, J Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of environmental flow (e-flow) regimes has been widely implemented to improve
fish habitat quality in river restoration efforts. However, e-flow designs focusing only on one …

Linking fish tolerance to water quality criteria for the assessment of environmental flows: A practical method for streamflow regulation and pollution control

C Zhao, S Yang, J Liu, C Liu, F Hao, Z Wang, H Zhang… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The survival of aquatic biota in stream ecosystems depends on both water quantity and
quality, and is particularly susceptible to degraded water quality in regulated rivers …

High-resolution satellite images combined with hydrological modeling derive river discharge for headwaters: A step toward discharge estimation in ungauged basins

Q Huang, D Long, Z Han, P Han - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The reliance on ground-based measurements has been a long-standing barrier toward
deriving river discharge for ungauged headwaters, which are quite sensitive to climate …

Determination of an appropriate ecological hydrograph for a rare fish species using an improved fish habitat suitability model introducing landscape ecology index

W Li, Q Chen, D Cai, R Li - Ecological Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
Fish habitat is an important component of riverine ecosystems. Ecological flow has been
proven essential to conserving riverine fish habitats. On the basis of using habitat quantity to …

Incorporating the life stages of fish into habitat assessment frameworks: A case study in the Baihetan Reservoir

Q Liu, P Zhang, B Cheng, Y Li, J Li, H Zhou… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Although it is widely accepted that the construction of dams may alter fish habitats, few
studies have followed the life cycles of fish and combined the environmental conditions with …

Calculating e-flow using UAV and ground monitoring

CS Zhao, CB Zhang, ST Yang, CM Liu, H Xiang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Intense human activity has led to serious degradation of basin water ecosystems and severe
reduction in the river flow available for aquatic biota. As an important water ecosystem index …

Comparison of environmental flow assessment methods with a case study on a runoff river–type hydropower plant using hydrological methods

Y Karakoyun, AH Dönmez, Z Yumurtacı - Environmental monitoring and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper focuses on the environmental flow assessment (EFA) methods that maintain the
river ecosystem and its integrity for hydropower plants (HPP) with their implementations on a …