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 …

Ecological restoration is widely practiced as a means of rehabilitating ecosystems and
habitats that have been degraded or impaired through human use or other causes …

Rivers are among the most diverse, dynamic, and productive ecosystems on Earth. River
flow regimes are constantly changing, but characterizing and understanding such changes …

Although a few texts on forest hydrology are available, they cover very little, if any,
background on water resources. On the other hand, books dealing with water resources do …

The Kosi megafan region of eastern Bihar, India, comprising of eight districts, is regularly
afflicted by large floods that cause extensive damage. Mapping the possible inundation …

Human impacts to aquatic ecosystems often involve changes in hydrologic connectivity and
flow regime. Drawing upon examples in the literature and from our experience, we …

Over the next century, climate change will dramatically alter natural resource management.
Specifically, historical reference conditions may no longer serve as benchmarks for …

Flood has become one of the major environmental disasters in the world. A flood
susceptibility assessment for the River Dwarkeswar was performed in this article, and the …

At the global scale, the warming of the atmosphere will increase the capacity of the
atmosphere to hold and accelerate the redistribution of water in the atmosphere. This …

Summary 1 One of the main targets of river regulation with dams and dykes is the
stabilization of highly fluctuating water tables. While there is information about the overall …