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Ecohydraulics is an interdisciplinary science studying the hydrodynamic factors that affect the survival and reproduction of aquatic organisms and the activities of aquatic organisms that affect hydraulics and water quality. Considerations include habitat maintenance or development, habitat-flow interactions, and organism responses. Ecohydraulics assesses the magnitude and timing of flows necessary to maintain a river ecosystem and provides tools to characterize the relation between flow discharge, flow field, and the availability of habitat within a river ecosystem. Based on this relation and insights into the hydraulic conditions optimal for different species or communities, ecohydraulics-modeling predicts how hydraulic conditions in a river change, under different development scenarios, the aquatic habitat of species or ecological communities. Similar considerations also apply to coastal, lake, and marine eco-systems.
In the past century, hydraulic engineers have been challenged by habitat modeling, complicated by lack of knowledge regarding ecohydraulics. Since the 1990s, especially after the first International Symposium on Ecohydraulics in 1994, ecohydraulics has developed rapidly, mainly to assess the impacts of human-induced changes of water flow and sediment conditions in river ecosystems...[1]
Ecohydraulics analyzes, models, and seeks to mitigate the adverse impacts of changes in hydraulic characteristics caused by dam construction and other human activities, on the suitability of habitat for organisms, such as fish and invertebrates, and to predict changes in biological communities and biodiversity.[2] Many articles report research findings about fluvial ecohydraulics.[3] For example, the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Taylor & Francis have been publishing the Journal of Ecohydraulics since 2016. The journal spans all topics in natural and applied ecohydraulics in all environmental settings.[4]
- ^ Casas-Mulet, R.; King, E.; Hoogeveen, D.; Duong, L.; Lakhanpal, G.; Baldwin, T.; Stewardson, M.J.; Webb, J.A. (2016-11-10). "Two decades of ecohydraulics: Trends of an emerging interdiscipline". Journal of Ecohydraulics. 1 (1–2): 16–30. Bibcode:2016JEcoh...1...16C. doi:10.1080/24705357.2016.1251296. ISSN 2470-5365. S2CID 151691916.
- ^ Maddock, Ian; Harby, Atle; Kemp, Paul; Wood, Paul, eds. (2013-06-30). Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach (1 ed.). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118526576. ISBN 978-0-470-97600-5.
- ^ Pasternak, Gregory B. (2019), "Natural Fluvial Ecohydraulics", Environmental Science, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/obo/9780199363445-0111, ISBN 978-0-19-936344-5, retrieved 2023-05-17
- ^ Kemp, Paul S.; Katopodis, Christos (2016-12-04). "Introducing the Journal of Ecohydraulics : fundamental and applied research on the road to transdisciplinarity". Journal of Ecohydraulics. 1 (1–2): 1–4. Bibcode:2016JEcoh...1....1K. doi:10.1080/24705357.2016.1259139. ISSN 2470-5357.