image: Dams on Andean Amazon rivers often divert all water from a river channel over a distance of several kilometers. In addition to the barrier of the dam itself, these de-watered reaches are significant breaks in connectivity. 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." view more
Credit: [Credit: Elizabeth Anderson]