Joar Swenning's research while affiliated with University of Copenhagen and other places

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Article
The Cachí Reservoir on the Reventazón River, Costa Rica, is flushed on an almost yearly basis. A field investigation of the 1996 flushing was carried out in order to elucidate from where in the reservoir the material originates, where and to what extent the released sediments will deposit along the river from the dam to the sea, and finally how thi...

Citations

... However, the rapid release of large quantities of water and sediment produces sudden alterations in flow velocity, water depth 6 and temperature 7 , together with an abrupt increase of the concentration of suspended solids 2,8-12 in the downstream river. These sudden alterations highly impact the river ecology 13-16 , also because they often produce persisting changes in bed composition and morphology [17][18][19] . ...