Reply to Comment on ‘An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales’

• Günther Grill,
• Bernhard Lehner,
• Alexander E Lumsdon,
• Graham K MacDonald,
• Christiane Zarfl,
• Catherine Reidy Liermann

Affiliations

Günther Grill

Department of Geography, McGill University , 805 Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 0B9, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.

Bernhard Lehner

Department of Geography, McGill University , 805 Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 0B9, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alexander E Lumsdon

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) , Müggelseedamm 310, D-12587 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Biology , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Graham K MacDonald

Department of Geography, McGill University , 805 Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 0B9, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Christiane Zarfl

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) , Müggelseedamm 310, D-12587 Berlin, Germany; Center for Applied Geoscience , Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074 Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Catherine Reidy Liermann

Center for Limnology , University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America