Governments worldwide do not adequately protect their limited freshwater systems and
therefore place freshwater functions and attendant ecosystem services at risk. The best …

Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state
while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorganizing after hydrological (for example …

Flowing waters have a unique role in supporting global biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles
and human societies,,,–. Although the importance of permanent watercourses is well …

Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be
successful, conservation strategies now need to account for geographical patterns in traits …

A proposed ruling by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), aimed at clarifying
which bodies of water that flow intermittently are protected under law, has provoked conflict …

Rivers and streams that do not flow permanently (herein intermittent rivers; IR s) make up a
large proportion of the world's inland waters and are gaining widespread attention. We …

Over half of global rivers and streams lack perennial flow, and understanding the distribution
and drivers of their flow regimes is critical for understanding their hydrologic …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Intermittent rivers, those channels that periodically cease to flow, constitute over half of the
total discharge of the global river network and will likely increase in their extent owing to …

Flowing stream networks dynamically extend and retract, both seasonally and in response to
precipitation events. These network dynamics can dramatically alter the drainage density …