Landscape context and the biophysical response of rivers to dam removal in the United States.

Dams have been a fundamental part of the U.S. national agenda over the past two hundred years. Recently, however, dam removal has emerged as a strategy for addressing aging, obsolete infrastructure and more than 1,100 dams have been removed since the 1970s. However, only 130 of these removals had an...

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Main Authors: Melissa M Foley, Francis J Magilligan, Christian E Torgersen, Jon J Major, Chauncey W Anderson, Patrick J Connolly, Daniel Wieferich, Patrick B Shafroth, James E Evans, Dana Infante, Laura S Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5503210?pdf=render