Ecological restoration of streams and rivers: shifting strategies and shifting goals

MA Palmer, KL Hondula, BJ Koch - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Ecological restoration has grown rapidly and now encompasses not only classic ecological
theory but also utilitarian concerns, such as preparedness for climate change and …

Much effort, little success: causes for the low ecological efficacy of restoration measures in German surface waters

DJ Brettschneider, T Spring, M Blumer, L Welge… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023‏ - Springer
Background For more than 20 years, restoration measures have been conducted on
watercourses in Germany to increase habitat diversity and thus promote biodiversity …

Environmental DNA reveals that rivers are conveyer belts of biodiversity information

K Deiner, EA Fronhofer, E Mächler, JC Walser… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
DNA sampled from the environment (eDNA) is a useful way to uncover biodiversity patterns.
By combining a conceptual model and empirical data, we test whether eDNA transported in …

Diversity in riverine metacommunities: a network perspective

F Altermatt - Aquatic Ecology, 2013‏ - Springer
The influence of spatial processes on diversity and community dynamics is generally
recognized in ecology and also applied to conservation projects involving forest and …

River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation

ES Bernhardt, MA Palmer - Ecological applications, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics

JS Sinclair, EAR Welti, F Altermatt… - Nature ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Humans impact terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, yet many broad-scale studies
have found no systematic, negative biodiversity changes (for example, decreasing …

Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates

JD Tonkin, S Stoll, A Sundermann… - Freshwater Biology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Restoration is an increasingly central theme in river ecology. Recent studies have
highlighted the importance of the species pool in the surrounding river network for …

The impact of hydromorphological restoration on river ecological status: a comparison of fish, benthic invertebrates, and macrophytes

P Haase, D Hering, SC Jähnig, AW Lorenz… - Hydrobiologia, 2013‏ - Springer
Abstract The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) has led to an increase in
hydromorphological restoration attempts in European rivers, but data on the ecological …

River network properties shape α‐diversity and community similarity patterns of aquatic insect communities across major drainage basins

F Altermatt, M Seymour, N Martinez - Journal of biogeography, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Spatial dynamics and habitat connectivity affect community composition and diversity in
many ecosystems. For many decades, diversity patterns in riverine ecosystems were thought …

Habitat connectivity and dispersal ability drive the assembly mechanisms of macroinvertebrate communities in river networks

R Sarremejane, H Mykrä, N Bonada… - Freshwater …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metacommunity studies commonly use spatial distances or, more recently, landscape
resistance measures between study sites as a surrogate for connectivity. However, local …