Articles | Volume 26, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6247-2022
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

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on hess-2022-87', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022
    • AC4: 'Reply on RC1', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on hess-2022-87', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 May 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022
    • AC5: 'Reply on RC2', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022
  • CC1: 'Comment on hess-2022-87', Davy Vanham, 31 May 2022
    • AC3: 'Reply on CC1', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022
    • AC6: 'Reply on CC1', Chinchu Mohan, 24 Jun 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (05 Sep 2022) by Giuliano Di Baldassarre
AR by Chinchu Mohan on behalf of the Authors (06 Sep 2022)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Sep 2022) by Giuliano Di Baldassarre
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (10 Oct 2022)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Nov 2022) by Giuliano Di Baldassarre
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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.