Riparian zones are among the most valuable ecosystems on the earth. They act as the
ecological engineers that improve river health through delivering a range of ecosystem …

Nearly 50 years of research focused on large wood (LW) in rivers provide a basis for
understanding how wood enters rivers; how wood decays, breaks, and is transported …

Increasing gold and mineral mining activity in rivers across the global tropics has degraded
ecosystems and threatened human health,. Such river mineral mining involves intensive …

To assess the effects of forest management on soil erosion in Southeast Asia, clear
distinctions must be made between surface erosion and landslide processes. Although …

Agroforestry has great potentials for providing numerous environmental services, including,
among others, soil conservation, land rehabilitation, ground water-table stabilization …

Large wood along rivers influences entrainment, transport, and storage of mineral sediment
and particulate organic matter. We review how wood alters sediment dynamics and explore …

Road networks are expanding in tropical countries, increasing human access to remote
forests that act as refuges for biodiversity and provide globally important ecosystem services …

Tropical primary forests have been disappearing quickly to make use of the land for
commercial purposes. Land-use change has an impact on downstream aquatic processes …

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph
Series, Volume 19. What are the forms and processes characteristic of mountain rivers and …

Few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of riparian buffers in the tropics, despite their
potential to reduce the impacts of deforestation on stream communities. We examined …