Non-perennial segments in river networks

T Datry, AJ Boulton, K Fritz, R Stubbington… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-perennial river segments—those that recurrently cease to flow or frequently dry—occur
in all river networks and are globally more abundant than perennial (always flowing) …

The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems

G Woodward, N Bonada, LE Brown… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most research on the effects of environmental change in freshwaters has focused on
incremental changes in average conditions, rather than fluctuations or extreme events such …

Intermittent rivers: a challenge for freshwater ecology

T Datry, ST Larned, K Tockner - BioScience, 2014 - academic.oup.com
For many decades, river research has been focused on perennial rivers. Intermittent river
research has a shorter history, and recent studies suggest that alternating dry and wet …

Ecological research and management of intermittent rivers: an historical review and future directions

C Leigh, AJ Boulton, JL Courtwright, K Fritz… - Freshwater …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rivers and streams that do not flow permanently (herein intermittent rivers; IR s) make up a
large proportion of the world's inland waters and are gaining widespread attention. We …

Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers

JR Blaszczak, LE Koenig, FH Mejia… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia in coastal waters and lakes is widely recognized as a detrimental environmental
issue, yet we lack a comparable understanding of hypoxia in rivers. We investigated controls …

Drought effects on wet soils in inland wetlands and peatlands

E Stirling, RW Fitzpatrick, LM Mosley - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Soils associated with wet and ephemerally wet environments, ie wet soils, cover an area
greater than 12.1 million km 2; inland wetlands deliver at least Int $27.0 trillion in tangible …

Drought, floods and water quality: drivers of a severe hypoxic blackwater event in a major river system (the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia)

KL Whitworth, DS Baldwin, JL Kerr - Journal of Hydrology, 2012 - Elsevier
Hypoxic blackwater events are characterised by high levels of dissolved organic carbon in
the water column, the metabolism of which depletes dissolved oxygen, which can cause fish …

Extreme water quality degradation following a catastrophic forest fire

CN Dahm, RI Candelaria‐Ley, CS Reale… - Freshwater …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting the forests of the western United States through rising
temperatures, earlier snowmelt, more rain and less snow, greater vapour pressure deficits in …

Instructive surprises in the hydrological functioning of landscapes

JW Kirchner, P Benettin… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Landscapes receive water from precipitation and then transport, store, mix, and release it,
both downward to streams and upward to vegetation. How they do this shapes floods …

Drainage from the critical zone: Lithologic controls on the persistence and spatial extent of wetted channels during the summer dry season

SM Lovill, WJ Hahm, WE Dietrich - Water Resources Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In seasonally dry environments, critical zone drainage provides base flow that sustains river
ecosystems. The extent of wetted channels and magnitude of base flow throughout the …