More than one million barriers fragment Europe’s rivers

Rivers support some of Earth’s richest biodiversity 1 and provide essential ecosystem services to society 2 , but they are often fragmented by barriers to free flow 3 . In Europe, attempts to quantify river connectivity have been hampered by the absence of a harmonized barrier database. Here we show...

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Published in:	Nature (London) Vol. 588; no. 7838; pp. 436 - 441
Main Authors:	Belletti, Barbara, Garcia de Leaniz, Carlos, Jones, Joshua, Bizzi, Simone, Börger, Luca, Segura, Gilles, Castelletti, Andrea, van de Bund, Wouter, Aarestrup, Kim, Barry, James, Belka, Kamila, Berkhuysen, Arjan, Birnie-Gauvin, Kim, Bussettini, Martina, Carolli, Mauro, Consuegra, Sofia, Dopico, Eduardo, Feierfeil, Tim, Fernández, Sara, Fernandez Garrido, Pao, Garcia-Vazquez, Eva, Garrido, Sara, Giannico, Guillermo, Gough, Peter, Jepsen, Niels, Jones, Peter E., Kemp, Paul, Kerr, Jim, King, James, Łapińska, Małgorzata, Lázaro, Gloria, Lucas, Martyn C., Marcello, Lucio, Martin, Patrick, McGinnity, Phillip, O’Hanley, Jesse, Olivo del Amo, Rosa, Parasiewicz, Piotr, Pusch, Martin, Rincon, Gonzalo, Rodriguez, Cesar, Royte, Joshua, Schneider, Claus Till, Tummers, Jeroen S., Vallesi, Sergio, Vowles, Andrew, Verspoor, Eric, Wanningen, Herman, Wantzen, Karl M., Wildman, Laura, Zalewski, Maciej
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.12.2020 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	631/158/672 704/242 706/2805 Agriculture - statistics & numerical data Altitude Biodiversity Biological diversity Buildings and facilities Control Dams Datasets as Topic Density Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering) Ecosystem Ecosystem services Elevation Environment and Society Environmental aspects Environmental restoration Environmental Restoration and Remediation - methods Environmental Restoration and Remediation - trends Environmental Sciences Estimates Europe Geography Human Activities Humanities and Social Sciences Humans Hydroelectric power Hydrology Logistic Models Machine Learning multidisciplinary Polls & surveys Population Density Power Plants - supply & distribution Protection and preservation River networks Rivers Science Science (multidisciplinary) Statistics Surface water Europe Scandinavia
ISSN:	0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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