Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the freshwater planetary boundary

Mohan, Chinchu; Gleeson, Tom; Famiglietti, James S.; Virkki, Vili; Kummu, Matti; Porkka, Miina; Wang-Erlandsson, Lan; Huggins, Xander; Gerten, Dieter; Jähnig, Sonja C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 23

Research article

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13 Dec 2022

Research article |

| 13 Dec 2022

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the freshwater planetary boundary

Chinchu Mohan, Tom Gleeson, James S. Famiglietti, Vili Virkki, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Xander Huggins, Dieter Gerten, and Sonja C. Jähnig

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022-supplement

Data sets

Data: Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flows violations and global freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the water planetary boundary C. Mohan, T. Gleeson, J. S. Famiglietti, V. Virkki, M. Kummu, M. Porkka, L. Wang-Erlandsson, X. Huggins, D. Gerten, and S. C. Jähnig https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/2BYXZZ

Model code and software

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the freshwater planetary boundary-Code (Version v1) C. Mohan, T. Gleeson, J. S. Famiglietti, V. Virkki, M. Kummu, M. Porkka, L. Wang-Erlandsson, X. Huggins, D. Gerten, and S. C. Jähnig https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7378494

Short summary

The relationship between environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity at a large scale is not well explored. This study intended to carry out an exploratory evaluation of this relationship at a large scale. While our results suggest that streamflow and EF may not be the only determinants of freshwater biodiversity at large scales, they do not preclude the existence of relationships at smaller scales or with more holistic EF methods or with other biodiversity data or metrics.