The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

K Van Looy, JD Tonkin, M Floury… - River Research and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Resilience in river ecosystems requires that organisms must persist in the face of highly
dynamic hydrological and geomorphological variations. Disturbance events such as floods …

Examining the utility of river restoration approaches for flood mitigation and channel stability enhancement: a recent review

S Mondal, PP Patel - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Increased anthropogenic activities, especially within the river corridor, have progressively
disrupted natural flow regimes and segmented channel–floodplain connectivity. Consequent …

[HTML][HTML] Freshwater fish biodiversity restoration in floodplain rivers requires connectivity and habitat heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales

T Stoffers, AD Buijse, GW Geerling, LH Jans… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
With a sixth mass extinction looming and freshwater biodiversity declining at unprecedented
rates, evaluating ecological efficacy of river restoration efforts is critical in combatting global …

Characterising physical habitats and fluvial hydromorphology: A new system for the survey and classification of river geomorphic units

B Belletti, M Rinaldi, M Bussettini, F Comiti, AM Gurnell… - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
Geomorphic units are the elementary spatial physical features of the river mosaic at the
reach scale that are nested within the overall hydromorphological structure of a river and its …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing towards functional environmental flows for temperate floodplain rivers

DS Hayes, JM Brändle, C Seliger, B Zeiringer… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstraction, diversion, and storage of flow alter rivers worldwide. In this context, minimum
flow regulations are applied to mitigate adverse impacts and to protect affected river reaches …

Effective river restoration in the 21st century: from trial and error to novel evidence-based approaches

N Friberg, NV Angelopoulos, AD Buijse… - Advances in ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is a comprehensive and updated overview of river restoration and covers all
relevant aspects from drivers of restoration, linkages between hydromorphology and biota …

Promoting fluvial geomorphology to “live with rivers” in the Anthropocene Era

JH García, A Ollero, A Ibisate, IC Fuller, RG Death… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Is geomorphology at the forefront of river management? The aims of this article are to
explore potential answers to this question in terms of role, barriers, motivation and prospects …

Assessing river condition: A multiscale approach designed for operational application in the context of biodiversity net gain

AM Gurnell, SJ Scott, J England… - River Research and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Assessments of river condition are needed to guide all aspects of river management. Such
assessments have evolved over three decades from simply capturing the mosaic of river …

[HTML][HTML] 30 years of large river restoration: How long do restored floodplain channels remain suitable for targeted rheophilic fishes in the lower river Rhine?

T Stoffers, FPL Collas, AD Buijse, GW Geerling… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ecological efficacy of river restoration projects may change over time, resulting in the
loss of their ecological function for targeted species. The goal of this study was to evaluate …

Environmental requirements and heterogeneity of rheophilic fish nursery habitats in European lowland rivers: Current insights and future challenges

T Stoffers, AD Buijse, JAJ Verreth… - Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The large‐scale degradation of riparian ecotones and of the connectivity between rivers and
their floodplains has resulted in a drastic decline of rheophilic fish populations in European …