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Article Dans Une Revue Science of the Total Environment Année : 2021

Thermal signatures identify the influence of dams and ponds on stream temperature at the regional scale

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Anthropogenic impoundments (e.g. large dams, small reservoirs, and ponds) are expanding in number globally, influencing downstream temperature regimes in a diversity of ways that depend on their structure and position along the river continuum. Because of the manifold downstream thermal responses, there has been a paucity of studies characterizing cumulative effect sizes at the catchment scale. Here, we introduce five thermal indicators based on the stream-air temperature relationship that together can identify the altered thermal signatures of dams and ponds. We used this thermal signature approach to evaluate a regional dataset of 330 daily stream temperature time series from stations throughout the Loire River basin, France, from 2008 to 2018. This basin (105 km2) is one of the largest European catchments with contrasting natural and anthropogenic characteristics. The derived thermal signatures were cross-validated with several known catchment characteristics, which strongly supported separation into dam-like, pond-like and natural-like signatures. We characterize the thermal regime of each thermal signature and contextualize it using a set of ecologically relevant thermal metrics. Results indicate that large dams decreased summer stream temperature by 2 °C and delayed the annual stream temperature peak by 23 days relative to the natural regimes. In contrast, the cumulative effects of upstream ponds increased summer stream temperature by 2.3 °C and increased synchrony with air temperature regimes. These thermal signatures thus allow for identifying and quantifying downstream thermal and ecological influences of different types of anthropogenic infrastructures without prior information on the source of modification and upstream water temperature conditions.
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hal-03120642 , version 1 (13-02-2023)

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Hanieh Seyedhashemi, Florentina Moatar, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Jacob Diamond, Aurélien Beaufort, et al.. Thermal signatures identify the influence of dams and ponds on stream temperature at the regional scale. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 766, pp.1-13. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142667⟩. ⟨hal-03120642⟩
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