River restoration is one of the most prominent areas of applied water‐resources science.
From an initial focus on enhancing fish habitat or river appearance, primarily through …

Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Connectivity describes the efficiency of material transfer between geomorphic system
components such as hillslopes and rivers or longitudinal segments within a river network …

Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. The
increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam‐removal studies …

Biotic homogenization goes beyond the increase in taxonomic similarity among
communities. It also involves the loss of biological differences in any organizational level …

The prolonged history of industrialization, flood control, and hydropower production has led
to the construction of 80,000 dams across the US generating significant hydrologic …

One of the desired outcomes of dam decommissioning and removal is the recovery of
aquatic and riparian ecosystems. To investigate this common objective, we synthesized …

The removal of two large dams on the Elwha River was completed in 2014 with a goal of
restoring anadromous salmonid populations. Using observations from ongoing field studies …

Managers make decisions regarding if and how to remove dams in spite of uncertainty
surrounding physical and ecological responses, and stakeholders often raise concerns …

Low-head dams and small hydropower developments are widely distributed in global rivers
because of their high cost-efficiency and smooth implementation. However, these …