Only in the years 2007–2016 about 8000 large dams were constructed all over the world,
adding to> 50,000 previously built dams. These structures disturb abiotic and biotic …

Climate change is expected to modify temperature and precipitation patterns throughout
Europe, leading to warmer drier summers; wetter, milder winters; and an extended growing …

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not
fully understood. This book provides the first global synthesis that compares plant …

Plant communities and dynamics can be characterized according to species composition or
plant traits. Here, we used species composition and plant traits to compare their …

Prolonged exposure to human induced-stressors can profoundly modify the natural
trajectory of ecosystems. Predicting how ecosystems respond under stress requires …

Transmission losses from the beds of ephemeral streams are thought to be a widespread
mechanism of groundwater recharge in arid and semi‐arid regions and support a range of …

Soil bioengineering for riverbank stabilization involves the use of living plant materials to
treat unstable or eroding riverbanks. These near-natural structures may harbor a higher …

Many riparian ecosystems in European temperate regions have lost their inherent, highly
dynamic character due to human-induced impacts such as river channelization and flow …

Abstract Random Forests (RFs) and Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) are popular
approaches for habitat suitability modelling in environmental flow assessment. However …

Bioengineering techniques have been encouraged over “hard” civil engineering such as
riprap for recovering naturalness on stabilized riverbanks, but their effectiveness in …