2014
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.818220
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A new approach to rapid, desktop-level, environmental flow assessments for rivers in South Africa

Abstract: An approach is presented for desktop-level environmental flow requirement (EFR) determination that is aligned with the Habitat Flow-Stressor Response (HFSR) method which evolved in South Africa over recent years. The HFSR method integrates hydrological, hydraulic and ecological habitat data, involves ecological and hydraulic specialists and is data-intensive and time-consuming. The revised desktop method integrates hydrological information with estimates of channel hydraulic cross-sectional characteristics to … Show more

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“…Rapid desktop methods have been developed to provide initial estimates of environmental flow needs for rivers in South Africa (Hughes and Hannart 2003, Hughes and Louw 2010, Hughes et al 2014) based on applications of the Building Block Methodology (BBM; King et al 2000), or Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation (DRIFT; King et al 2003, King andBrown 2010). Similarly, statistical summary methods have been based on amalgamating multiple physical habitat studies in the UK (Booker and Acreman 2007) and New Zealand (Lamouroux and Jowett 2005).…”
Section: State Of the Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rapid desktop methods have been developed to provide initial estimates of environmental flow needs for rivers in South Africa (Hughes and Hannart 2003, Hughes and Louw 2010, Hughes et al 2014) based on applications of the Building Block Methodology (BBM; King et al 2000), or Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation (DRIFT; King et al 2003, King andBrown 2010). Similarly, statistical summary methods have been based on amalgamating multiple physical habitat studies in the UK (Booker and Acreman 2007) and New Zealand (Lamouroux and Jowett 2005).…”
Section: State Of the Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The results were used to develop and calibrate the rapid Desktop Model (Hughes & Munster, ), which was used to inform countrywide water resource planning. Medium‐ or high‐resolution EFlows Assessments continued in South Africa up to 2018, and the outputs from more than 50 rivers were used to update the Desktop Model (Hughes, Desai, Birkhead, & Louw, ; Hughes & Hannart, ), which was used to increase the spatial coverage of assessments across the country for Classification (Dollar et al, ). The Desktop Model was also used to inform coarse‐level EFlows Assessments in Malawi (Chimtengo, Ngongondo, Tumbare, & Monjerezi, ), Zambia (King and Brown, 2014; King, Joubert, & Ewart‐Smith, ) and Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe (Kashaigili et al, ).…”
Section: Eflows Assessmentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because of the deterioration of ecosystems in many rivers around the world, river ecological protection has been received great attention. Though EF can be evaluated in a number of different procedures, almost all are dependent on two aspects: (1) sustain freshwater biodiversity and the integrity of riverine ecosystems with limited alterations from the natural flow baseline, and (2) preserve site-specific species and ecosystem service outcomes with designing flow regimes [18,19]. In practice, as the river authority struggles to preserve and restore riverine ecosystems, the former practice is needed to ensure that current ecological conditions of natural and semi-natural rivers do not deteriorate further.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%