The Influence of Hydropower Dams on River Connectivity in the Andes Amazon (9 of 9) (VIDEO)

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Navigation is a central river ecosystem service that could be affected by the direct and indirect effects associated with fragmentation by dams in the Andes Amazon. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 31 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.P. Anderson at Florida International University in Miami, FL, and colleagues was titled, "Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon connectivity by hydropower dams."

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[Credit: Sebastian Heilpern]

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