Three Gorges Dam

Zhen-li, Huang; Wu, Bingfang

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-55302-2

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“…Environmental sustainability in basic research and consequently come with associated risks, such as landslides, earthquakes, and destruction of habitats, and can themselves be a source of the potent GHG methane when flooded flora rots. The Three Gorges dam in particular has been controversial both domestically and abroad [75]. In arid areas, or during periods of drought, which are expected to become more prevalent due to climate change, hydroelectric power may be in competition with agricultural needs, and climate change may jeopardise future yields of existing dams.…”

Section: Low-carbon Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+

Banerjee

2023

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The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental infrastructure, such as accelerators and observatories, and rely similarly on the processing of big data. Our communities therefore face similar challenges to improving the sustainability of our research. This document aims to reflect on the environmental impacts of our work practices and research infrastructure, to highlight best practice, to make recommendations for positive changes, and to identify the opportunities and challenges that such changes present for wider aspects of social responsibility.

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Section: Low-carbon Energymentioning

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Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+

Banerjee

2023

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“…Then in 2003, the Three Gorges Dam was completed 38 km upstream of the Gezhouba Dam (Xu and Milliman, 2009). The completion of these two dams, especially the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydropower station in the world, has made the Gezhouba Reservoir and the Three Gorges Reservoir changed from turbulent water habitats to static water environments, this created feasible conditions for the survival of fish that prefer to live in still water environment, such as C. brachygnathus (Huang and Wu, 2018;Gao et al, 2019). (In the present study, we regard the Gezhouba Reservoir as part of the Three Gorges Reservoir; so, only the Three Gorges Reservoir will be mentioned hereafter).…”

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Population Genetics Reveals Invasion Origin of Coilia brachygnathus in the Three Gorges Reservoir of the Yangtze River, China

Zhai

Xiong

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Non-indigenous fish invasions have posed a serious threat to global fish diversity and aquatic ecosystem security. Studying the invasion sources, pathways, and genetic mechanisms by means of population genetics is helpful in the management and control of non-indigenous fishes. In this study, we used mitochondrial Cyt b gene, D-Loop region and microsatellite markers to analyze the genetic diversity and population structure of 12 Coilia brachygnathus populations from the native and invaded regions of the Yangtze River Basin in order to explore the invasion sources, pathways, and genetic mechanisms of C. brachygnathus in the Three Gorges Reservoir. The results showed that the main invasion sources of C. brachygnathus in the Three Gorges Reservoir were the Poyanghu Lake, Dongtinghu Lake, Changhu Lake, and other populations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The invasion pathway may have involved moving upstream through the operation of ship locks. The genetic diversity of C. brachygnathus in the invasive populations was significantly smaller than in the native populations, indicating a founder effect. The low genetic diversity did not affect the successful invasion, confirming that genetic diversity and successful invasion do not always have a simple causal relationship. These results can provide basic data for the prevention and control of C. brachygnathus in the Three Gorges Reservoir and study case for understanding the mechanism of invasion genetics.

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