Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. and brown trout Salmo trutta fario L. are species of high socio‐
economic and ecological value. Declining populations make them target species of fisheries …

Incorporation of concepts from landscape ecology into understanding and managing
riverine ecosystems has become widely known as riverscape ecology. Riverscape ecology …

The global number of dam constructions has increased dramatically over the past six
decades and is forecast to continue to rise, particularly in less industrialized regions …

Hundreds of dams have been proposed throughout the Amazon basin, one of the world's
largest untapped hydropower frontiers. While hydropower is a potentially clean source of …

Fragmentation is one of the major threats to riverine ecosystems and this is most explicitly
expressed by the decline in numbers of migratory fish species. Yet each species has …

A key challenge in aquatic restoration efforts is documenting locations where ecological
connectivity is disrupted in water bodies that are dammed or crossed by roads (road …

Freshwater systems are severely impacted by connectivity reduction due to the construction
of dams and weirs. The breach of this longitudinal connectivity imperils freshwater fish …

The loss of longitudinal connectivity affects river systems globally, being one of the leading
causes of the freshwater biodiversity crisis. Barriers alter the dispersal of aquatic organisms …

In arid and semiarid areas with scarce precipitation, strong evaporation, and fragile
ecosystems, rivers and groundwater interact frequently. Dynamic hydrological changes and …

Over the last two decades, systematic conservation planning has been increasingly applied
in terrestrial and marine systems. The approach has traditionally been lagging in freshwater …