Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and
reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are …

Rewilding is a restoration approach that aims to promote self-regulating complex
ecosystems by restoring non-human ecological processes while reducing human control …

Water browning or brownification refers to increasing water color, often related to increasing
dissolved organic matter (DOM) and carbon (DOC) content in freshwaters. Browning has …

In this chapter, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the
interactions between important drivers and controls of hyporheic exchange and …

Megaherbivores perform vital ecosystem engineering roles, and have their last remaining
stronghold in Africa. Of Africa's remaining megaherbivores, the common hippopotamus …

The introduction of hippos into the wild in Colombia has been marked by their rapid
population growth and widespread dispersal on the landscape, high financial costs of …

Megaherbivores (adult body mass> 1000 kg) are suggested to disproportionately shape
ecosystem and Earth system functioning. We systematically reviewed the empirical basis for …

Biological invasions are a big concern due to their potential to impact ecosystems, as well as
local people. The hippo Hippopotamus amphibius, native to Africa, has invaded extensive …

The vision of rewilding is to return ecosystems to a “natural” or “self-willed” state with trophic
complexity, dispersal (and connectivity) and stochastic disturbance in place. The concept is …

Abstract The Magdalena River in Colombia is one of the world's largest (discharge= 7100
m3 s− 1) tropical rivers, hosting> 170 aquatic vertebrate species. However, concise …