Tackling reservoir siltation by controlled sediment flushing: Impact on downstream fauna and related management issues

• Paolo Espa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Espa, Silvia Quadroni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

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• Ramon J. Batalla,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fluvial Dynamics Research Group RIUS, University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, Catalan Institute for Water Research, ICRA, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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• Maria Laura Brignoli,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Pavia Acque S.c.a.r.l., Pavia, Italy

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• Giuseppe Crosa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: giuseppe.crosa@uninsubria.it

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-7567

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• Gaetano Gentili,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Graia S.r.l., Varano Borghi, Italy

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• Silvia Quadroni

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Espa, Silvia Quadroni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

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