Lotic environments contain a disproportionate amount of biodiversity given their relatively
small proportion of the worldwide landscape. We conducted a systematic literature search of …

Restoration of riparian forests has been promoted as a means of mitigating urban impacts
on stream ecosystems. However, conventional urban stormwater drainage may diminish the …

Stream conservation and restoration strategies commonly focus on preserving extant
riparian forest and restoring riparian habitat. Though these practices are beneficial to stream …

Biomonitoring programs to access the ecological integrity of freshwaters tend to rely
exclusively on structural parameters. Here we evaluated stream ecological integrity using (a) …

Riparian zones form the interface between stream and terrestrial ecosystems and play a key
role through their vegetation structure in determining stream biodiversity, ecosystem …

The natural hydrologic processes that create and maintain the diversity of aquatic and
riparian habitats along the World's streams and rivers have been profoundly altered by …

Riparian communities have been well-studied along individual streams, but not within the
context of networks of which streams are a part. To study networks, hydrologists use Horton …

An important goal in aquatic ecology is to determine the interacting variables that regulate
community structure; however, complex biotic and abiotic interactions coupled with the …

Climate change and agricultural intensification are two potential stressors that may pose
significant threats to aquatic habitats in the inland Pacific Northwest over the next century …

Background Urban areas are often built along large rivers and surrounded by agricultural
land. This may lead to small tributary streams that have agricultural headwaters and …