Urban rivers: novel ecosystems, new challenges
Opinion
Robert A. Francis
Published Online: Nov 26 2013
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1007
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Published Online: Dec 04 2018
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Fluvial and aquatic applications of Structure from Motion photogrammetry and unmanned aerial vehicle/drone technology
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Published Online: Dec 03 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1328
Theory, tools, and multidisciplinary applications for tracing groundwater fluxes from temperature profiles
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Published Online: Dec 02 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1329
Understanding microbial ecology to improve management of drinking water distribution systems
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Published Online: Oct 24 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1325
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Published Online: Oct 11 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1323
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Shilpa Dahake
Published Online: Jun 06 2018
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Impacts of using lakes and rivers for extraction and disposal of heat
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Adrien Gaudard, Christine Weber, Timothy J. Alexander, Stefan Hunziker, Martin Schmid
Published Online: May 23 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1295
Rivers are social–ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management
Primer
Jason B. Dunham, Paul L. Angermeier, Shelley D. Crausbay, Amanda E. Cravens, Hannah Gosnell, Jamie McEvoy, Max A. Moritz, Nejem Raheem, Todd Sanford
Published Online: Apr 23 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1291
Opening the black box of spring water microbiology from alpine karst aquifers to support proactive drinking water resource management
Overview
Domenico Savio, Philipp Stadler, Georg H. Reischer, Alexander K.T. Kirschner, Katalin Demeter, Rita Linke, Alfred P. Blaschke, Regina Sommer, Ulrich Szewzyk, Inés C. Wilhartitz, Robert L. Mach, Hermann Stadler, Andreas H. Farnleitner
Published Online: Mar 09 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1282
Stream mitigation banking
Primer
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Published Online: Feb 21 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1279
Streams of data from drops of water: 21st century molecular microbial ecology
Primer
Dave R. Clark, Robert M. W. Ferguson, Danielle N. Harris, Kirsty J. Matthews Nicholass, Hannah J. Prentice, Kate C. Randall, Luli Randell, Scott L. Warren, Alex J. Dumbrell
Published Online: Feb 21 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1280
Subsurface plant‐accessible water in mountain ecosystems with a Mediterranean climate
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Published Online: Feb 15 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1277
Hydropower and high productivity in the Hanford Reach: A synthesis of how flow management may benefit fall Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River, USA
Focus Article
Russell B. Langshaw, Peter J. Graf, Todd N. Pearsons
Published Online: Feb 02 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1275
Refining and defining riverscape genetics: How rivers influence population genetic structure
Overview
Chanté D. Davis, Clinton W. Epps, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Michael A. Banks
Published Online: Jan 31 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1269
Unexpected ecological advances made possible by long‐term data: A Coweeta example
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C. Rhett Jackson, Jackson R. Webster, Jennifer D. Knoepp, Katherine J. Elliott, Ryan E. Emanuel, Peter V. Caldwell, Chelcy F. Miniat
Published Online: Jan 09 2018
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1273
Microplastics: An introduction to environmental transport processes
Primer
Alice A. Horton, Simon J. Dixon
Published Online: Dec 28 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1268
Ecosystem engineers in rivers: An introduction to how and where organisms create positive biogeomorphic feedbacks
Primer
Lina E. Polvi, Judith M. Sarneel
Published Online: Dec 28 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1271
Goals and principles for programmatic river restoration monitoring and evaluation: collaborative learning across multiple projects
Overview
Christine Weber, Ulrika Åberg, Anthonie D. Buijse, Francine M.R. Hughes, Brendan G. McKie, Hervé Piégay, Phil Roni, Stefan Vollenweider, Susanne Haertel‐Borer
Published Online: Oct 29 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1257
Quantifying components of the phosphorus cycle in temperate forests
Advanced Review
Jakob Sohrt, Friederike Lang, Markus Weiler
Published Online: Sep 03 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1243
The cause of rapid lake expansion in the Tibetan Plateau: climate wetting or warming?
Opinion
Yanbin Lei, Kun Yang
Published Online: Aug 23 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1236
Mediterranean wetlands: archaeology, ecology, and sustainability
Overview
Andrea L. Balbo, Julia Martinez‐Fernández, Miguel‐Angel Esteve‐Selma
Published Online: Aug 16 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1238
The pernicious problem of streambed colmation: a multi‐disciplinary reflection on the mechanisms, causes, impacts, and management challenges
Advanced Review
Geraldene Wharton, Seyed Hossein Mohajeri, Maurizio Righetti
Published Online: Jul 07 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1231
Water flow, ecological dynamics, and management in the lower Limpopo Valley: a long‐term view
Overview
A. Ekblom, L. Gillson, M. Notelid
Published Online: Jun 23 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1228
The changing water cycle: Burabay National Nature Park, Northern Kazakhstan
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Published Online: May 18 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1227
Temporary streams in temperate zones: recognizing, monitoring and restoring transitional aquatic‐terrestrial ecosystems
Opinion
Rachel Stubbington, Judy England, Paul J. Wood, Catherine E.M. Sefton
Published Online: May 02 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1223
Drones and digital photogrammetry: from classifications to continuums for monitoring river habitat and hydromorphology
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Amy S. Woodget, Robbie Austrums, Ian P. Maddock, Evelyn Habit
Published Online: Apr 26 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1222
How to get and keep citizens involved in mobile crowd sensing for water management? A review of key success factors and motivational aspects
Overview
Martine Rutten, Ellen Minkman, Maarten van der Sanden
Published Online: Apr 17 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1218
Life in turbulent flows: interactions between hydrodynamics and aquatic organisms in rivers
Advanced Review
Giuditta Trinci, Gemma L. Harvey, Alexander J. Henshaw, Walter Bertoldi, Franz Hölker
Published Online: Apr 11 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1213
State and irrigation: archeological and textual evidence of water management in late Bronze Age China
Advanced Review
Yijie Zhuang
Published Online: Apr 10 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1217
Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna
Overview
Fengzhi He, Christiane Zarfl, Vanessa Bremerich, Alex Henshaw, William Darwall, Klement Tockner, Sonja C. Jähnig
Published Online: Feb 21 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1208
Water quality and UK agriculture: challenges and opportunities
Overview
Joseph Holden, Philip M. Haygarth, Nicola Dunn, Jim Harris, Robert C. Harris, Ann Humble, Alan Jenkins, Jannette MacDonald, Dan F. McGonigle, Theresa Meacham, Harriet G. Orr, Phillippa L. Pearson, Martin Ross, Alison Sapiets, Tim Benton
Published Online: Feb 14 2017
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1201
Deciphering long‐term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle
Overview
Keely Mills, Daniel Schillereff, Émilie Saulnier‐Talbot, Peter Gell, N. John Anderson, Fabien Arnaud, Xuhui Dong, Matthew Jones, Suzanne McGowan, Julieta Massaferro, Heather Moorhouse, Liseth Perez, David B. Ryves
Published Online: Dec 27 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1195
Modes of governance in India's hydropower development
Overview
Kelly D. Alley
Published Online: Dec 19 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1198
Developing a coherent narrative for conserving freshwater and wetland habitats: experiences in the UK
Opinion
Chris P. Mainstone
Published Online: Nov 07 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1189
Effective restoration of aquatic ecosystems: scaling the barriers
Overview
Nikolai Friberg, Tom Buijse, Caitríona Carter, Daniel Hering, Bryan M. Spears, Piet Verdonschot, Therese Fosholt Moe
Published Online: Nov 02 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1190
Effects of non‐rainfall water inputs on ecosystem functions
Advanced Review
Lixin Wang, Kudzai F. Kaseke, Mary K. Seely
Published Online: Oct 06 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1179
Status and trends of dam removal research in the United States
Advanced Review
J. Ryan Bellmore, Jeffrey J. Duda, Laura S. Craig, Samantha L. Greene, Christian E. Torgersen, Mathias J. Collins, Katherine Vittum
Published Online: Sep 05 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1164
Reimagining watershed restoration: a call for new investment and support structures for greater resiliency and long‐term impact
Opinion
Robert F. Warren, Todd Reeve, Jennifer S. Arnold
Published Online: Sep 04 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1174
Environmental flows—basics for novices
Primer
Mike Acreman
Published Online: Jun 30 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1160
Assessing the geomorphic recovery potential of rivers: forecasting future trajectories of adjustment for use in management
Focus Article
Kirstie A. Fryirs, Gary J. Brierley
Published Online: May 27 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1158
From soil to sea: the role of groundwater in coastal critical zone processes
Advanced Review
Audrey H. Sawyer, Holly A. Michael, Andrew W. Schroth
Published Online: May 17 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1157
The importance of landscape diversity for carbon fluxes at the landscape level: small‐scale heterogeneity matters
Focus Article
Katrin Premke, Katrin Attermeyer, Jürgen Augustin, Alvaro Cabezas, Peter Casper, Detlef Deumlich, Jörg Gelbrecht, Horst H. Gerke, Arthur Gessler, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Sabine Hilt, Michael Hupfer, Thomas Kalettka, Zachary Kayler, Gunnar Lischeid, Michael Sommer, Dominik Zak
Published Online: Apr 07 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1147
The Galápagos archipelago: a natural laboratory to examine sharp hydroclimatic, geologic and anthropogenic gradients
Focus Article
Madelyn S. Percy, Sarah R. Schmitt, Diego A. Riveros‐Iregui, Benjamin B. Mirus
Published Online: Mar 31 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1145
How large is a river? Conceptualizing river landscape signatures and envelopes in four dimensions
Opinion
Angela M. Gurnell, Walter Bertoldi, Klement Tockner, Geraldene Wharton, Guido Zolezzi
Published Online: Mar 17 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1143
Citizen science: from detecting pollution to evaluating ecological restoration
Opinion
Joseph E. A. Huddart, Murray S. A. Thompson, Guy Woodward, Stephen J. Brooks
Published Online: Feb 29 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1138
Integrating biodiversity conservation and water development: in search of long‐term solutions
Opinion
L. J. Gorenflo, Dennis B. Warner
Published Online: Feb 27 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1142
A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations
Advanced Review
Stephen J Dugdale
Published Online: Jan 25 2016
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1135
Long‐term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology
Advanced Review
Suzanne McGowan, N. John Anderson, Mary E. Edwards, Peter G. Langdon, Vivienne J. Jones, Simon Turner, Maarten van Hardenbroek, Erika Whiteford, Emma Wiik
Published Online: Dec 23 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1130
Modeling plant–water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale
Overview
Simone Fatichi, Christoforos Pappas, Valeriy Y. Ivanov
Published Online: Nov 19 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1125
Ecosystem impacts of Alpine water intakes for hydropower: the challenge of sediment management
Overview
Chrystelle Gabbud, Stuart N. Lane
Published Online: Nov 17 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1124
Coupling virtual watersheds with ecosystem services assessment: a 21st century platform to support river research and management
Opinion
José Barquín, Lee E. Benda, Ferdinando Villa, Lee E. Brown, Núria Bonada, David R. Vieites, Tom J. Battin, Julian D. Olden, Samantha J. Hughes, Clare Gray, Guy Woodward
Published Online: Sep 10 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1106
A review of plant‐flow interactions on salt marshes: the importance of vegetation structure and plant mechanical characteristics
Advanced Review
James Alexander Tempest, Iris Möller, Tom Spencer
Published Online: Aug 26 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1103
Developing and using geomorphic condition assessments for river rehabilitation planning, implementation and monitoring
Advanced Review
Kirstie A. Fryirs
Published Online: Jul 23 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1100
The changing water cycle: the Boreal Plains ecozone of Western Canada
Overview
A. M. Ireson, A. G. Barr, J. F. Johnstone, S. D. Mamet, G. van der Kamp, C. J. Whitfield, N. L. Michel, R. L. North, C. J. Westbrook, C. DeBeer, K. P. Chun, A. Nazemi, J. Sagin
Published Online: Jul 20 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1098
Wild salmon recovery and inconvenient reality along the west coast of North America: indulgences atoning for guilt?
Opinion
Robert T. Lackey
Published Online: Jun 18 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1093
A framework for assessing ecosystem services in acequia irrigation communities of the Upper Río Grande watershed
Focus Article
N. Raheem, S. Archambault, E. Arellano, M. Gonzales, D. Kopp, J. Rivera, S. Guldan, K. Boykin, C. Oldham, A. Valdez, S. Colt, E. Lamadrid, J. Wang, J. Price, J. Goldstein, P. Arnold, S. Martin, E. Dingwell
Published Online: Jun 08 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1091
Hydrologic ecosystem services: linking ecohydrologic processes to human well‐being in water research and watershed management
Overview
Kate A. Brauman
Published Online: Mar 12 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1081
Optimization of bioretention systems through application of ecological theory
Focus Article
Lisa A. Levin, Andrew S. Mehring
Published Online: Feb 16 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1072
Of wood and rivers: bridging the perception gap
Opinion
Ellen Wohl
Published Online: Feb 16 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1076
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in natural bog pools and those created by rewetting schemes
Overview
Jeannie M Beadle, Lee E Brown, Joseph Holden
Published Online: Feb 10 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1063
Comparison of stormwater biofiltration systems in Southeast Australia and Southern California
Focus Article
Richard F. Ambrose, Brandon K. Winfrey
Published Online: Feb 02 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1064
Customs, habits, and traditions: the role of nonscientific factors in the development of ecological assessment methods
Opinion
Martyn G. Kelly, Susanne C. Schneider, Lydia King
Published Online: Feb 02 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1068
What else do managers need to know about warming rivers? A United Kingdom perspective
Opinion
Harriet G. Orr, Matthew F. Johnson, Robert L. Wilby, Tristan Hatton‐Ellis, Samantha Broadmeadow
Published Online: Jan 27 2015
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1062
Are invasives worse in freshwater than terrestrial ecosystems?
Opinion
Tom P. Moorhouse, David W. Macdonald
Published Online: Dec 15 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1059
Conservation of aquatic landscapes: ponds, lakes, and rivers as integrated systems
Focus Article
Carl D. Sayer
Published Online: Sep 25 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1045
The hydraulic description of vegetated river channels: the weaknesses of existing formulations and emerging alternatives
Advanced Review
Timothy I. Marjoribanks, Richard J. Hardy, Stuart N. Lane
Published Online: Sep 15 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1044
Impacts and indicators of change in lotic ecosystems
Advanced Review
Nikolai Friberg
Published Online: Aug 20 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1040
Science‐policy interfacing on the issue of groundwater and groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in Europe: implications for research and policy
Focus Article
Bosman Batubara, Okke Batelaan, Philippe Quevauviller
Published Online: Aug 20 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1041
The scale and organization of ancient Maya water management
Overview
Andrew R. Wyatt
Published Online: Aug 15 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1042
Cross‐fertilizing aquatic and terrestrial research to understand predator risk effects
Overview
Aaron J. Wirsing, Michael R. Heithaus, Alejandro Frid
Published Online: Aug 04 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1039
Characterizing geomorphological change to support sustainable river restoration and management
Advanced Review
Robert C. Grabowski, Nicola Surian, Angela M. Gurnell
Published Online: Jul 24 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1037
A ‘behaviorscape’ perspective on stream fish ecology and conservation: linking fish behavior to riverscapes
Advanced Review
Seth M. White, Guillermo Giannico, Hiram Li
Published Online: Jun 29 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1033
A germ theory for glacial systems?
Opinion
Arwyn Edwards, Tristram Irvine‐Fynn, Andrew C. Mitchell, Sara M. E. Rassner
Published Online: Jun 10 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1029
River classification: theory, practice, politics
Overview
Marc Tadaki, Gary Brierley, Carola Cullum
Published Online: Apr 09 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1026
How to make sense of our rivers: using assemblage to understand angling
Focus Article
Louise J. Bracken, Elizabeth Oughton
Published Online: Mar 19 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1025
Applications of spatial statistical network models to stream data
Advanced Review
Daniel J. Isaak, Erin E. Peterson, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Seth J. Wenger, Jeffrey A. Falke, Christian E. Torgersen, Colin Sowder, E. Ashley Steel, Marie‐Josee Fortin, Chris E. Jordan, Aaron S. Ruesch, Nicholas Som, Pascal Monestiez
Published Online: Mar 03 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1023
The changing nature of river restoration
Overview
Benjamin Smith, Nicholas J. Clifford, Jenny Mant
Published Online: Feb 22 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1021
Developing hydroecological models to inform environmental flow standards: a case study from England
Focus Article
Megan J. Klaar, Michael J. Dunbar, Mark Warren, Rob Soley
Published Online: Feb 12 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1012
Baptism in the Jordan River: immersing in a contested transboundary watercourse
Focus Article
Francesca de Châtel
Published Online: Jan 30 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1013
Understanding the dynamics of black carbon and associated contaminants in glacial systems
Opinion
Andrew J. Hodson
Published Online: Jan 30 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1016
The ecology and biodiversity of urban ponds
Advanced Review
Christopher Hassall
Published Online: Jan 14 2014
DOI:10.1002/wat2.1014