An important question for salmon restoration efforts in the western USA is 'How should
habitat restoration plans be altered to accommodate climate change effects on stream flow …

Conventional flood control has emphasized structural measures such as levees, reservoirs,
and engineered channels—measures that typically simplify river channels and cut them off …

Temporal environmental fluctuations, such as seasonality, exert strong controls on
biodiversity. While the effects of seasonality are well known, the predictability of fluctuations …

Mobile consumers track fluctuating resources across heterogeneous landscapes to grow
and survive. In river networks, the abundance and accessibility of food and the energetic …

Biogenic features such as beaver dams, large wood, and live vegetation are essential to the
maintenance of complex stream ecosystems, but these features are largely absent from …

Building on previous environmental flow discussions and a growing recognition that
hydrogeomorphic processes are inherent in the ecological functionality and biodiversity of …

The science and practice of environmental flows have advanced significantly over the last
several decades. Most environmental flow approaches require quantifying the relationships …

ABSTRACT For decades, Channel Evolution Models have provided useful templates for
understanding morphological responses to disturbance associated with lowering base level …

Freshwater fish move vertically and horizontally through the aquatic landscape for a variety
of reasons, such as to find and exploit patchy resources or to locate essential habitats (eg …

Opperman, Jeffrey J., Ryan Luster, Bruce A. McKenney, Michael Roberts, and Amanda
Wrona Meadows, 2010. Ecologically Functional Floodplains: Connectivity, Flow Regime …