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ClearTradeoffs and synergies in wetland multifunctionality: A scaling issue
Researchers reviewed the ecological functions of wetlands in agricultural landscapes — including nutrient retention and biodiversity support — and found that achieving multiple environmental benefits simultaneously requires planning at the scale of entire wetland networks, not just individual wetland sites.
Hydrological Connectivity Patterns and Their Eco-hydrological Implications in the Dasha River, China
This study used graph theory and isotope tracing with weekly eco-hydrological monitoring to assess hydrological connectivity and ecological impacts in the heavily modified Dasha River, Shenzhen, providing a methodological framework for urban river management.
Watershed Ecohydrological Processes in a Changing Environment: Opportunities and Challenges
This review examines watershed ecohydrological processes under changing environmental conditions, including the impacts of climate change and human activities on water quantity and quality. Researchers propose a new integrated framework for watershed management that incorporates socioeconomic activities alongside ecological and hydrological monitoring. The study identifies emerging environmental concerns, including microplastic pollution, as factors that need to be incorporated into modern watershed management strategies.
An Analytical Framework for Determining the Ecological Risks of Wastewater Discharges in River Networks Under Climate Change
Researchers developed an analytical framework to assess ecological risks from wastewater treatment plant discharges into river networks under climate change scenarios, finding that reduced river flows from climate change will amplify ecological risks from effluent contaminants including microplastics.
Indicators to assess temporal variability in marine connectivity processes: A semi-theoretical approach
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an oceanography study developing indicators to characterize temporal variability in marine connectivity for designing effective marine protected area networks in the Mediterranean.
From headwaters to receiving waters: river dynamics in an increasingly urban world
This paper is not about microplastics; it synthesizes research on river dynamics from headwaters to receiving waters in urban environments, covering hydrological, ecological, and restoration topics.
Indicators to assess interannual variability in marine connectivity processes: a semi-theoretical approach
Researchers developed indicators to characterize the occurrence, strength, and frequency of interannual variability in marine connectivity in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, testing a semi-theoretical approach to support temporal considerations in the design and evaluation of marine protected area networks.
Interventions of river network structures on urban aquatic microplastic footprint from a connectivity perspective
Researchers analyzed microplastic distribution in a typical urban river network in Nanjing, China, using multiple detection methods and the Renkonen similarity index to assess how river infrastructure structures such as dams and sluices influence microplastic spatial variability and footprint from a connectivity perspective.
Scientific evidence of the hydrological impacts of nature‐based solutions at the catchment scale
This review assessed the scientific evidence for how nature-based solutions like wetlands, ponds, and green infrastructure affect water flow at the scale of entire watersheds. Researchers found that the effectiveness of each approach depends heavily on local conditions such as location, design, and environmental factors. The study emphasizes the need for better planning tools and more research before large-scale implementation of these interventions for water management.
Interconnected impacts of water resource management and climate change on microplastic pollution and riverine biocoenosis: A review by freshwater ecologists
Researchers reviewed how river hydrology, water resource management, and climate change interact to influence microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems. They found that floods can flush microplastics from catchments, while reservoirs act as both sinks and sources, and extreme weather events driven by climate change tend to concentrate microplastics and threaten aquatic organisms. The study highlights a critical gap in research that jointly addresses these interconnected factors and calls for integrated policy approaches.
What Determines the Future Ecological Risks of Wastewater Discharges in River Networks: Load, Location or Climate Change?
Researchers developed a systematic framework for assessing future ecological risks from wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents in river networks by combining plant size class as a proxy for pollutant load with stream order as a proxy for discharge location, applying it under climate change scenarios to show that streamflow reduction in receiving rivers will significantly worsen ecological risk even without increases in pollutant loads.
River ecosystem processes: A synthesis of approaches, criteria of use and sensitivity to environmental stressors
This synthesis reviewed approaches to studying river ecosystem processes, evaluating criteria for selecting sensitive indicators and methods for detecting ecological change driven by pollution and land-use pressures.
Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions: Recent Advances and Interdisciplinary Challenges
This review covers recent advances in understanding groundwater–surface water interactions, including their importance for drinking water security and contaminant transport, and argues for interdisciplinary approaches that combine hydrology, ecology, and geochemistry.
Climatic and anthropogenic regulation of carbon transport and transformation in a karst river-reservoir system
Researchers analyzed dissolved inorganic carbon along a cascade of seven dam reservoirs in a karst river system in southwest China over one hydrological year, finding that cascading dams collectively exert a stronger effect on carbon cycling than single dams, with water temperature and hydraulic retention time jointly controlling how much carbon is retained or transformed.
Comment on egusphere-2023-939
This comment paper proposes a framework for building river network models from geographic information system data to study environmental processes in rivers. Improved river modeling tools help predict how microplastics are transported and distributed through river networks to coastal ecosystems.
Interactions of natural and anthropogenic drivers and hydrological processes on local and regional scales: A review of main results of Slovak hydrology from 2019 to 2022
This review synthesizes major results from Slovak hydrological research from 2019 to 2022, examining how natural and anthropogenic drivers interact with hydrological processes at local and regional scales in a country with high spatiotemporal variability in runoff regimes. The authors highlight findings related to extreme floods and droughts, climate change impacts, and advances in monitoring, modelling, and water resources management relevant to Central European hydrology.
The role of water management and its effect on microplastic transport and fate
Researchers examined how water management practices affect the transport and fate of microplastics in river networks, which serve as both conduits and sinks for plastic pollution. The study found that flow regulation and water management interventions significantly influence how far microplastics travel and where they accumulate.
Methodology for the study of the traceability of runoff water feeding reservoirs
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper presents a GIS-based methodology for tracing the agricultural plots whose rainwater runoff feeds a reservoir, extending the D8 drainage algorithm with land-use and rainfall data to assess agrochemical contamination pathways.
Doing Science in Ecology. Does river flow show a path?
This perspective piece examines how rivers face irreversible changes from habitat simplification, altered water cycles, and human impacts that cascade from local to regional scales, calling for river ecologists to expand their frameworks beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Beyond landscape experience: A systematic literature review on the concept of spatial quality in flood‐risk management
This paper is not about microplastics; it systematically reviews how "spatial quality" is defined and used in flood-risk management planning across different countries and academic traditions.
The role of water management and its effect on microplastic transport and fate
This study examined how water management decisions, such as dam operations and irrigation withdrawals, influence microplastic concentrations and transport in river systems. Flow regulation was found to alter how microplastics accumulate and flush through river networks.
Flux to Flow: a Clearer View of Earth’s Water Cycle Via Neural Networks and Satellite Data
This dissertation developed neural network methods to enhance the spatial resolution of satellite measurements of Earth's water cycle, enabling finer-scale monitoring of hydrological processes such as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff across diverse environments.
Quantifying microplastic fluvial flux from a coastal watershed—A microplastic rating curve approach
Researchers quantified the flux of microplastics transported by rivers to the coast from a single watershed, providing a mass balance for how much plastic a defined catchment exports. Such flux estimates are essential building blocks for calculating global land-to-ocean plastic budgets.
The need of ecohydrological research in tropical forests for healthy watersheds
This paper is not relevant to microplastics; it argues for more ecohydrological research in tropical forests to understand water cycling and watershed health.