Limitations to the feasibility of using hypolimnetic releases to create refuges for riverine species in response to stream warming

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest . . . Aristotle (350 BCE), Politics Book II, Part 3 These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as invested with a certain sanctity, to be used by us but not abused, and never to be recklessly destroyed or defaced. To pollute a spring or a river, to exterminate a bird or beast, should be treated as moral offences and as social crimes . . . Alfred Russel Wallace (1914: p. 278), The World of Life . . . this is a problem of ecology, of interrelationships, of interdependence.We poison the caddis flies in a stream and the salmon runs dwindle and die. We poison the gnats in a lake and the poison travels from link to link of the food chain and soon the birds of the lake margins become its victims. . . . They reflect the web of lifeor deaththat scientists know as ecology.Rachel Carson (1962: p. 189), Silent Spring The Medium Is the MessageWater is essential for life in general, and for humans in particular. Food production in the form of rain-fed and irrigated agriculture, livestock production, fisheries and aquaculture depend upon the availability of fresh water. This scarce resource also sustains a significant amount of animal biodiversity, much of which is now threatened. Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny (1999) co-opted Marshall McLuhan's 1964 catchphrase 'the medium is the message' to encapsulate the notion that freshwater biodiversity is imperilled due to dependence on a resource subject to unprecedented and ever-increasing human demands. And the trade-offs between human use of water and the water needed for nature have

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Limitations to the feasibility of using hypolimnetic releases to create refuges for riverine species in response to stream warming

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Will future climate change increase the risk of violating minimum flow and maximum temperature thresholds below dams in the Pacific Northwest?

Will future climate change increase the risk of violating minimum flow and maximum temperature thresholds below dams in the Pacific Northwest?

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