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Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1657-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1657-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
Reviews and syntheses
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23 Apr 2019
Reviews and syntheses |  | 23 Apr 2019

Reviews and syntheses: Dams, water quality and tropical reservoir stratification

Robert Scott Winton, Elisa Calamita, and Bernhard Wehrli

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A global boom in dam construction throughout the world’s tropics motivated us to review and synthesize information on the water quality impacts of dams with a focus on low-latitude contexts and scope for mitigation. Sediment trapping and reservoir stratification are key process driving chemical and ecological impacts on tropical rivers. We analyze the 54 most-voluminous low-latitude reservoirs and find that stratification seems to be a ubiquitous phenomenon.
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