Megadamania The global desire to develop energyhungry industries and Western lifestyles, combined with the necessity to do so without further increasing the use of fossil fuels, has led to a massive spree of dam building around the world. A recent assessment by Christiane Zarfl from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries at Berlin, Germany, and colleagues estimates tha...

ABSTRACT Golden mussel is an invasive species in Brazil which impacts local environments, dislocating native and altering microecological conditions as well affecting hydroelectric power plants water treatment systems. The objective of this research to establish a method that both effective efficient quantify the population plant reservoirs, with focus on control measures. A two-dimensional mat...

The sustained development of hydropower energy in the last century has caused important ecological impacts, promoting recent advances efficient mitigation measures to be implemented existing and future plants. Although upstream fish migration been largely addressed with fish-pass infrastructures, downstream passage solutions are often missing or inefficient, strengthening need for their improve...