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Understanding the effects of spatially variable riparian tree planting strategies to target water temperature reductions in rivers (2024)
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Climate change is increasing river temperature globally, altering the thermal suitability for iconic cold-water adapted fishes. In regions with low tree cover, the impacts of projected climate change on river temperature will be particularly pronounc... Read More about Understanding the effects of spatially variable riparian tree planting strategies to target water temperature reductions in rivers.

Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience (2024)
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Rising water temperatures in rivers due to climate change are already having observable impacts on river ecosystems. Warming water has both direct and indirect impacts on aquatic life, and further aggravates pervasive issues such as eutrophication, p... Read More about Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience.

An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking (2023)
Journal Article

Monitoring rivers is vital to manage the invaluable ecosystem services they provide, and also to mitigate the risks they pose to property and life through flooding and drought. Due to the vast extent and dynamic nature of river systems, Earth Observa... Read More about An AI approach to operationalise global daily PlanetScope satellite imagery for river water masking.

Combining Landsat TIR ‐imagery data and ERA5 reanalysis information with different calibration strategies to improve simulations of streamflow and river temperature in the Canadian Subarctic (2023)
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Arctic and Subarctic environments are among the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Increases in liquid precipitation and changes in snowmelt onset are cited as the main drivers of change in streamflow and water temperature patterns in some of... Read More about Combining Landsat TIR ‐imagery data and ERA5 reanalysis information with different calibration strategies to improve simulations of streamflow and river temperature in the Canadian Subarctic.

Drought impacts on river water temperature: A process‐based understanding from temperate climates (2023)
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High river water temperature (Tw) extremes have been widely reported during drought conditions as extreme low-flows often coincide with high atmospheric energy inputs. This has significant implications for freshwater ecosystem health and sustainable... Read More about Drought impacts on river water temperature: A process‐based understanding from temperate climates.

Closing the gap between science and management of cold‐water refuges in rivers and streams (2023)
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Human activities and climate change threaten coldwater organisms in freshwater ecosystems by causing rivers and streams to warm, increasing the intensity and frequency of warm temperature events, and reducing thermal heterogeneity. Cold-water refuges... Read More about Closing the gap between science and management of cold‐water refuges in rivers and streams.

Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements (2023)
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The role of groundwater (GW) discharge on surface water (SW) quantity, quality and temperature is known to be important. Moreover, the effect of GW contributions to river thermal budgets is critical in natural rivers considering that water temperatur... Read More about Analysis of Large-Scale Groundwater-Driven Cooling Zones in Rivers Using Thermal Infrared Imagery and Radon Measurements.

Identification of Thermal Refuges and Water Temperature Patterns in Salmonid-Bearing Subarctic Rivers of Northern Quebec (2022)
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In summer, salmonids can experience thermal stress during extreme weather conditions. This may affect their growth and even threaten their survival. Cool water zones in rivers constitute thermal refuges, allowing fish to be more comfortable to grow a... Read More about Identification of Thermal Refuges and Water Temperature Patterns in Salmonid-Bearing Subarctic Rivers of Northern Quebec.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
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Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Looking to the Skies: Realising the Combined Potential of Drones and Thermal Infrared Imagery to Advance Hydrological Process Understanding in Headwaters (2022)
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In river systems, headwater networks contain the vast majority of the stream length. Thus, climate and land-use change in headwaters have disproportionate impacts on downstream ecosystems and societies that rely on them. Despite decades of hydrologic... Read More about Looking to the Skies: Realising the Combined Potential of Drones and Thermal Infrared Imagery to Advance Hydrological Process Understanding in Headwaters.

Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications (2021)
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Landscape perspectives in riverine ecology have been undertaken increasingly in the last 30 years, leading aquatic ecologists to develop a diverse set of approaches for conceptualizing, mapping and understanding ‘riverscapes’. Spatiotemporally explic... Read More about Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications.

The Importance of Including Water Temperature Simulations in a 2D Fish Habitat Model for the St. Lawrence River (2021)
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Extreme climatic conditions likely caused a massive fish mortality during the summer of 2001 in the St. Lawrence River. To corroborate this hypothesis, we used a physical habitat simulation approach incorporating hydraulic and water temperature model... Read More about The Importance of Including Water Temperature Simulations in a 2D Fish Habitat Model for the St. Lawrence River.

Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters (2020)
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Climate change and invasive species are among the biggest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem function. Although the individual impacts of climate change and invasive species are commonly assessed, we know far less about how a changing clima... Read More about Thermal sensitivity of feeding and burrowing activity of an invasive crayfish in UK waters.

Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification (2020)
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Rivers are among the world's most threatened ecosystems. Enabled by the rapid development of drone technology, hyperspatial resolution ([less than]10 cm) images of fluvial environments are now a common data source used to better understand these sens... Read More about Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification.

River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems (2020)
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There is growing evidence that river temperatures are increasing under climate change, which is expected to be exacerbated by increased abstractions to satisfy human water demands. Water temperature research has experienced crucial advances, both in... Read More about River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems.

An evaluation of different forest cover geospatial data for riparian shading and river temperature modelling (2020)
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Riparian tree planting is increasingly being used as a strategy to shade river corridors and offset the impact of climate change on river temperature. Because the circumstances under which tree planting generates the greatest impact are still largely... Read More about An evaluation of different forest cover geospatial data for riparian shading and river temperature modelling.

Mediterranean intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Challenges in monitoring complexity (2019)
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In most cases, intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) form the principal surface water bodies in Mediterranean regions and people are heavily dependent on them. Strong reliance on such streams results in numerous pressures, and complex rela... Read More about Mediterranean intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Challenges in monitoring complexity.

Arctic river temperature dynamics in a changing climate (2019)
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Climate change in the Arctic is expected to have a major impact on stream ecosystems, affecting hydrological and thermal regimes. Although temperature is important to a range of in‐stream processes, previous Arctic stream temperature research is limi... Read More about Arctic river temperature dynamics in a changing climate.

Comparing the behavioural thermoregulation response to heat stress by Atlantic salmon parr ( Salmo salar ) in two rivers (2019)
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Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme thermal events in rivers. The Little Southwest Miramichi River (LSWM) and the Ouelle River (OR) are two Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) rivers located in eastern Canada, wher... Read More about Comparing the behavioural thermoregulation response to heat stress by Atlantic salmon parr ( Salmo salar ) in two rivers.

Drone-based Structure-from-Motion provides accurate forest canopy data to assess shading effects in river temperature models (2019)
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Climatic warming will increase river temperature globally, with consequences for cold water-adapted organisms. In regions with low forest cover, elevated river temperature is often associated with a lack of bankside shading. Consequently, river manag... Read More about Drone-based Structure-from-Motion provides accurate forest canopy data to assess shading effects in river temperature models.