The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need
to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote …

Abstract The EU Nature Restoration Law represents an important opportunity for freshwater
habitat restoration and, consequently, freshwater biodiversity protection. However, a number …

Floodplain forests offer a diversity of habitats and resources for a very wide range of plant
and animal species. They also offer many benefits to humankind and are considered …

Truths of the Riverscape refer to the use of geomorphological principles to inform
sustainable approaches to nature-based river management. Across much of the world a …

River hydromorphology has long been subjected to huge anthropogenic pressures with
severe negative impacts on related ecosystems' functioning and water quality. Therefore …

Riparian zones are the interface between aquatic and terrestrial systems along inland
watercourses. They have a disproportionate ecological role in the landscape considering …

Abstract In the Danube River Basin multiple pressures affect the river system as a
consequence of river engineering works, altering both the river hydrodynamics and …

Geomorphic units are the elementary spatial physical features of the river mosaic at the
reach scale that are nested within the overall hydromorphological structure of a river and its …

European countries have defined> 1000 national river types and> 400 national lake types to
implement the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). In addition, common river and lake …

As part of an hierarchical, multi-scale, hydromorphological framework for European rivers
that has been developed within the REFORM project, a procedure for classifying rivers has …