Despite the recognition of floodplain importance in the scientific community, floodplains are
not afforded the same legal protection as river channels. In the United States alone, flood …

Environmental flows (e-flows) aim to mitigate the threat of altered hydrological regimes in
river systems and connected waterbodies and are an important component of integrated …

Conventional flood control has emphasized structural measures such as levees, reservoirs,
and engineered channels—measures that typically simplify river channels and cut them off …

Rivers and streams, when fully connected to their floodplains, are naturally resilient systems
that are increasingly part of the conversation on nature‐based climate solutions …

Degraded floodplains and valley floors are restored with the goal of enhancing habitat for
native fish and aquatic-riparian biota and the protection or improvement of water quality …

Rivers have been diminished, simplified, and degraded globally by the concentration of
agriculture, transportation, and development in valley bottoms over decades and centuries …

Perennial rivers in desert regions are relevant environments that tend to concentrate most
ecosystem services and values, but are not as studied as much as intermittent and …

Floodplains provide numerous ecosystem services that depend on the spatial heterogeneity,
or patchiness, of the floodplain. Direct and indirect human alterations of rivers can reduce …

Riparian vegetation patches growing on river banks and floodplains influence in‐channel
and overbank hydromorphological processes. The current knowledge on patch‐scale …

The lack of watershed-scale estimates of floodplain carbon stocks limits recognition of the
important role of floodplains and river corridor restoration in efforts to enhance carbon …