Despite some highly visible projects that have resulted in environmental benefits, recent
efforts to quantify the number and distribution of river restoration projects revealed a paucity …

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 …

As part of the National River Restoration Science Synthesis (NRRSS), we developed a
summary database of 4,023 stream restoration projects built in California since 1980, from …

Restoration activity has exponentially increased across the Southwest since 1990. Over
37,000 records were compiled into the National River Restoration Science Synthesis …

Despite rapid growth in river restoration, few projects receive the necessary evaluation and
reporting to determine their success or failure and to learn from experience. As part of the …

River restoration is at the forefront of applied hydrologic science. However, many river
restoration projects are conducted with minimal scientific context. We propose two themes …

This paper is a comprehensive and updated overview of river restoration and covers all
relevant aspects from drivers of restoration, linkages between hydromorphology and biota …

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 …

River restoration is one of the most prominent areas of applied water‐resources science.
From an initial focus on enhancing fish habitat or river appearance, primarily through …

River and stream restoration projects are increasingly numerous but rarely subjected to
systematic post‐project evaluation. The few such evaluation studies conducted have …