Abstract
The concepts of stream metabolism were adopted to clarify the impacts of run-of-river hydropower system on the stream ecosystem. We conducted a field survey with logging the continuous data of dissolved oxygen concentration above and below the hydropower dam. In order to estimate the primary production and the community respiration, the practical procedures were employed with collected data of dissolved oxygen concentration according to the Kayaba’s empirical model based on the Odum’s concept. As the results, daily gross production, community respiration and their ratio could be degenerated especially below the dam at low flow conditions. It was also clarified that the availability and limitation of the present method to adopt this kind of environmental impact assessment.
