Research at the intersection of hydrology and ecology is central to a future in which human
and ecological needs for water are met. We briefly identify several compelling research …

Understanding socio-ecological characteristics associated with rivers and their catchments,
and using that understanding to effectively manage and restore river ecosystems, is an …

Despite expenditures of more than 1 billion dollars annually, there is little information
available about project motivations, actions, and results for the vast majority of river …

The world's population is increasingly urban, and streams and rivers, as the low lying points
of the landscape, are especially sensitive to and profoundly impacted by the changes …

Process-based restoration aims to reestablish normative rates and magnitudes of physical,
chemical, and biological processes that sustain river and floodplain ecosystems. Ecosystem …

Although river restoration has increased rapidly, observations of successful ecological
recovery are rare, mostly due to a discrepancy in the spatial scale of the impact and the …

River restoration is a rapidly maturing focus of scientific and practitioner activity, which draws
on a long history of intervention in watercourses for varied economic and social reasons …

Summary 1 In the face of continuing anthropogenic stressors to freshwater systems world‐
wide, the natural resilience and resistance of the freshwater ecosystems that enables them …

The hydrology and geomorphology of most rivers has been fundamentally altered through a
long history of human interventions including modification of river channels, floodplains, and …

Ecosystem restoration was originally founded upon recovering ecosystems using wildlands
as a reference state. More recently there has been interest in shifting to the restoration of …