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Mashup Score: 3The world’s rivers are changing, here’s how - 2 year(s) ago
The way rivers function is significantly affected by how much sediment they transport and where it gets deposited. River sediment — mostly sand, silt, and clay — plays a critical ecological role, as it provides habitat for organisms downstream and in estuaries. It is also important for human life, resupplying nutrients to floodplain agricultural soils, and buffering sea level rise caused by…
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The world’s rivers are changing; research results quantify how construction of #dams and land use change alters #sediment flux to oceans @dartmouth #earthsciences https://t.co/hVwiADJJMS