Adequate conceptual frameworks that link land use to water quality and ecosystem health
are lacking for tropical and subtropical freshwater systems, so we review here extensive …

We review the literature on the ecology, connectivity, human impacts and management of
freshwater and estuarine systems in the Great Barrier Reef catchment (424,000 km 2), on …

Freshwater environments and their fishes are particularly vulnerable to climate change
because the persistence and quality of aquatic habitat depend heavily on climatic and …

The scientific determination of ecological flow can rationalize and specify the needs of river
health in light of the current orientation toward ecologically oriented water management. We …

Managers are moving toward implementing large-scale coastal ecosystem restoration
projects, however, many fail to achieve desired outcomes. Among the key reasons for this is …

Water-quality monitoring in rivers often focuses on the concentrations of sediments and
nutrients, constituents that can smother biota and cause eutrophication. However, the …

Many aquatic ecosystems have been severely degraded by water-resource development
affecting flow regimes and biological connectivity. Freshwater fish have been particularly …

Highly seasonal rivers can experience extended low flow, and often dry, periods.
Macroinvertebrate and flow data were used to explore hypotheses on the effects of …

Global climate change predictions include decreased precipitation and more frequent
droughts in many world regions. In the aseasonal wet tropics, predicting potential impacts is …

Small fishes in seasonally flooded environments such as the Everglades are capable of
spreading into newly flooded areas and building up substantial biomass. Passive drift …