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Assessment of ecological instream flow requirements under climate change Pseudorasbora parva

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Climate change alters ecohydrological processes on different temporal and spatial scales. The aim of this study was to estimate ecological instream flow requirements (EIFR) under climate change impacts and to ascertain optimum flow magnitude to maintain the health of river ecosystems. We used the Mann–Kendall test, the River2D Hydrodynamic model, and the frequency-weighted usable area (FWUA) model on an annual scale in the Juma River to investigate changes in EIFRs caused by climate change. Findings indicated that: (1) between 1956 and 2005, annual instream flow in the Juma River exhibited an abrupt downward trend (in 1981); (2) variation in instream flow governed the area of available fish habitat, and degrees of change for low flow threshold values and low and high FWUA threshold almost exclusively occurred in descending sequential order from winter, spring, autumn, and summer; (3) changes in hydrological regimes influenced both the quantity and quality of physical habitat area, contributing greater to quality than to the distribution of area of physical habitat for Pseudorasbora parva. Climate change, reflected in the changes in EIFR and the area of optimum physical habitat, has dramatically influenced ecological structure and function, even in the small river system investigated for this study. Findings indicated that more rational measures should be put into practice to help address climate change.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51579008), the National Key Basic Research and Development Project (2016YFC0500402), the special fund of the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (14L01ESPC), and the Open Research Fund Program of the Beijing Climate Change Response Research and Education Center (Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture).

Funding was provided by the Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (Grant No. YETP0259).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Q. Liu, H. Yu, F. Ping, X. Xia, X. Mou & J. Liang

  2. Key Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Q. Liu, H. Yu, F. Ping, X. Xia, X. Mou & J. Liang

  3. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    L. Liang

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Liu, Q., Yu, H., Liang, L. et al. Assessment of ecological instream flow requirements under climate change Pseudorasbora parva . Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 14, 509–520 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-016-1166-1

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