Riparian zones act as ecological engineers through stream bank stabilization, pollutant
buffering, energy provision to food webs, and groundwater recharge. In the ongoing …

Land degradation and biodiversity decline are two of the main threats currently faced by
humankind. For this reason, ecosystem restoration has become a priority in recent decades …

Natural processes and human activities both cause morphological changes in channels.
Remote sensing products are often used to assess planform changes, but they tend to …

The increasing drought frequency poses a significant threat to global and regional river
systems and ecosystem functioning, especially in the complex topographical Buffalo River …

Plant communities that occur along water corridors are termed riparian vegetation. Although
relatively narrow and long, riparian zones do provide an extensive spatially linear network of …

Tropical stream ecosystems are under increasing human pressure, making the development
of effective restoration approaches and expanding knowledge in this field urgent. This study …

Riparian wetlands have suffered from degradation due to global climate change and human
activities, which can alter flora and fauna community patterns and disrupt material cycles in …

River recovery is defined as the trajectory of change that a reach takes towards an improved
condition. In geomorphic terms, this includes improvement in both the physical structure and …

Riparian vegetation patches growing on river banks and floodplains influence in‐channel
and overbank hydromorphological processes. The current knowledge on patch‐scale …

1. Riparian zones are vital areas of interaction between land and rivers and are often
degraded by several pressures such as urbanisation, intensive agriculture and river …