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 …

Plants growing within river corridors both affect and respond to fluvial processes. Their
above‐ground biomass modifies the flow field and retains sediment, whereas their below …

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

Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to
sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that …

The fluvial riparian and aquatic patch mosaic varies along rivers according to
geomorphological setting, hydrological regime, sediment supply and surface–groundwater …

River restoration is an increasingly common approach utilized to reverse past degradation of
freshwater ecosystems and to mitigate the anticipated damage to freshwaters from future …

Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an iconic coral reef system extending over 2000 km
along the north‐east coast of Australia. Global recognition of its Outstanding Universal Value …

Riparian zones are among the most valuable ecosystems on the earth. They act as the
ecological engineers that improve river health through delivering a range of ecosystem …

River management based solely on physical science has proven to be unsustainable and
unsuccessful, evidenced by the fact that the problems this approach intended to solve (eg …

Faced with widespread degradation of riverine ecosystems, stream restoration has greatly
increased. Such restoration is rarely planned and executed with inputs from ecological …