Ecological traps, which occur when animals mistakenly prefer habitats where their fitness is
lower than in other available habitats following rapid environmental change, have important …

Aquatic pesticide pollution from both agricultural and urban pest control is a concern in
many parts of the world. Making an accurate assessment of pesticide exposure is the …

Monitoring the impacts of anthropogenic threats and interventions to mitigate these threats is
key to understanding how to best conserve biodiversity. Ecologists use many different study …

Assessment of disaster resilience using an index is often a key element of natural hazard
management and planning. Many assessments have been undertaken worldwide …

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which was adopted in 2000, changed
water management in all member states of the European Union fundamentally, putting …

Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the
application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular …

Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to
sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that …

Summary 1 Increasingly, river managers are turning from hard engineering solutions to
ecologically based restoration activities in order to improve degraded waterways. River …

Aging infrastructure coupled with growing interest in river restoration has driven a dramatic
increase in the practice of dam removal. With this increase, there has been a proliferation of …

Desalination of seawater is an increasingly common means by which nations satisfy
demand for water. Desalination has a long history in the Middle East and Mediterranean, but …