Human activities and climate change threaten coldwater organisms in freshwater
ecosystems by causing rivers and streams to warm, increasing the intensity and frequency of …

Wild salmon stocks in the Pacific Northwest are imperiled by a variety of anthropogenic
environmental modifications, not the least of which is increasing maximum water …

A common goal of biological adaptation planning is to identify and prioritize locations that
remain suitably cool during the summer. This implicitly devalues areas that are ephemerally …

Thermal regimes are fundamental determinants of aquatic ecosystems, which makes
description and prediction of temperatures critical during a period of rapid global change …

Summary 1 Increasingly, river managers are turning from hard engineering solutions to
ecologically based restoration activities in order to improve degraded waterways. River …

This commentary examines an “inconvenient truth” that phosphorus (P)‐based nutrient
mitigation, long regarded as the key tool in eutrophication management, in many cases has …

Anthropogenic activities such as mining, agriculture and industrial wastes have increased
the rate of salinization of freshwater ecosystems around the world. Despite the known and …

This chapter addresses the characteristics and nature of organic selenium (Se) toxicity to
aquatic organisms, based on the most current state of scientific knowledge. As such, the …

Hyporheic exchange is the mixing of surface and shallow subsurface water through porous
sediment surrounding a river and is driven by spatial and temporal variations in channel …

Streams and rivers host a significant portion of Earth's biodiversity and provide important
ecosystem services for human populations. Accurate information regarding the status and …