Water temperature in reservoirs is an important water quality factor which affects the living of aquatic, so the selective withdrawal intakes are adopted gradually.
The National Nature Reserve for the Rare and Endemic Fishes in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River (NNRARSF) has owns the unique natural habitat and abundant aquatic biodiversity.
Water diversion project is a measure to optimize the time and region disposition of water resources,but the ecology and environmental situation are also changed at the same time.
The term river health, applied to the assessment of river condition, which plays an important role in the field of ecology and environment science in recent years.
Long residence times and low mixing of water in lakes has been known to cause severe water quality problems, particularly where the water body is subjected to effluent discharges, hydro-climatic extre
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of human development of an estuary on an endangered freshwater fish, Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis.
Being the last undammed tributary of the upper Yangtze River, the Chishui River is an important part of the protection zone.In this paper, the relation between the phytoplankton community structure an
The Chinese sturgeon Acipenser sinensis, is a large and highly endangered anadromous fish species only conducting natural reproductive activities in the Yangtze River.
Many of the worlds large river systems are severely stressed due to population growth, water quality and quantity problems, vulnerability to flood and drought and the loss of native species and cultur