The effect of river restoration on fish, macroinvertebrates and aquatic macrophytes: A meta-analysis

J Kail, K Brabec, M Poppe, K Januschke - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
An increasing number of rivers have been restored over the past decades and several
studies investigated the effect on biota. The published monitoring results have already been …

Impacts of human‐induced environmental change in wetlands on aquatic animals

M Sievers, R Hale, KM Parris, SE Swearer - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many wetlands harbour highly diverse biological communities and provide extensive
ecosystem services; however, these important ecological features are being altered …

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 …

Wood placement in river restoration: fact, fiction, and future direction

P Roni, T Beechie, G Pess… - Canadian Journal of …, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
Despite decades of research on wood in rivers, the addition of wood as a river restoration
technique remains controversial. We reviewed the literature on natural and placed wood to …

From natural to degraded rivers and back again: a test of restoration ecology theory and practice

CK Feld, S Birk, DC Bradley, D Hering, J Kail… - Advances in ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Extensive degradation of ecosystems, combined with the increasing demands placed on the
goods and services they provide, is a major driver of biodiversity loss on a global scale. In …

River restoration success depends on the species pool of the immediate surroundings

A Sundermann, S Stoll, P Haase - Ecological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies evaluating the success of river restorations have rarely found any
consistent effects on benthic invertebrate assemblages. In this study, we analyzed data from …

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 …

The challenges of urban river restoration and the proposition of a framework towards river restoration goals

LF Guimarães, FC Teixeira, JN Pereira… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
River restoration is gaining significance as an approach for river system management, even
in urban areas, where the flood risks and morphological imbalances are more evident. In …

River restoration success: a question of perception

SC Jähnig, AW Lorenz, D Hering… - Ecological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
What defines success and failure of river restoration measures is a strongly debated topic in
restoration science, but standardized approaches to evaluate either are still not available …

Twenty years of stream restoration in Finland: little response by benthic macroinvertebrate communities

P Louhi, H Mykrä, R Paavola, A Huusko… - Ecological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The primary focus of many in‐stream restoration projects is to enhance habitat diversity for
salmonid fishes, yet the lack of properly designed monitoring studies, particularly ones with …