PMID- 36717655
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230131
LR  - 20230202
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Jan 30
TI  - Morphometric delineation of administrative boundaries and classification of 
      threatened categories of small watersheds in transboundary rivers.
PG  - 1652
LID - 10.1038/s41598-023-28913-5 [doi]
LID - 1652
AB  - The ecological conservation of large rivers is impossible unless immediate 
      attention is given to protecting their small tributaries at local levels. The 
      natural boundaries of large river basins are shrinking because their tributaries 
      and streams of different orders are disappearing at an unprecedented rate. 
      Delineation of the fixed administrative boundaries (AB) to protect the natural 
      boundary of small rivers and their classification into appropriate threatened 
      categories, the present study was carried out on the 54.08 km long Banki River in 
      the Ganga River basin. The > 70% irreversible loss in the number of streams (Nu), 
      length of streams (Lu), and drainage density (Dd) resulted in the conversion of 
      the 6th order Banki into the 4th order river. The extreme morphometric changes 
      result in the Banki watershed being under the "Critically Endangered" category. 
      The drainage density ratio (DdR) and mean stream width (M(sw)) were used to 
      determine the width of AB (W(AB)). The "River Red List Categories and Criteria" 
      are being proposed to strengthen global initiatives at the local levels to 
      protect and conserve inland water bodies and transboundary rivers.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s).
FAU - Anshumali
AU  - Anshumali
AD  - Laboratory of Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Science and 
      Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, 
      Jharkhand, 826004, India. anshumali@iitism.ac.in.
FAU - Pandey, Rahul Kumar
AU  - Pandey RK
AD  - Laboratory of Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Science and 
      Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, 
      Jharkhand, 826004, India.
FAU - Gupta, Rahul Kumar
AU  - Gupta RK
AD  - Laboratory of Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Science and 
      Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, 
      Jharkhand, 826004, India.
FAU - Kumar, Sanchit
AU  - Kumar S
AD  - Laboratory of Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Science and 
      Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, 
      Jharkhand, 826004, India.
LA  - eng
GR  - IIT(ISM)/2021-22/826/INSTITUTE/Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) 
      Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand, India/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230130
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
PMC - PMC9886851
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2023/01/31 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/31 06:01
PMCR- 2023/01/30
CRDT- 2023/01/30 23:43
PHST- 2022/08/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/30 23:43 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/31 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-28913-5 [pii]
AID - 28913 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-28913-5 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2023 Jan 30;13(1):1652. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28913-5.