Sustainability of global Golden Inland Waterways

The exploitation of rivers has been at the detriment of river ecosystems. Here the authors propose a concept of Golden Inland Waterways (GIWs) to represent large waterways and find that the exploitation ratio threshold around the turning point for most GIWs appear to be less than 80%, subject to eco...

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Main Authors: Yichu Wang, Xiabin Chen, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Tianhong Li, Huaihan Liu, Shengfa Yang, Chunmiao Zheng, Jianhua Xu, Jinren Ni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15354-1