Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments
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Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments
As the water requirement for food production and other human needs grows, quantification of environmental flow requirements (EFRs) is necessary to assess the amount of water needed to sustain freshwater ecosystems. EFRs are the result of the quantification of water necessary to sustain the riverine ecosystem, which is calculated from the mean of an environmental flow (EF) method. In this study,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1607-7938
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-5041-2014