Over the next century, climate change will dramatically alter natural resource management.
Specifically, historical reference conditions may no longer serve as benchmarks for …

Climate change and associated changes in streamflow may alter riparian habitats
substantially in coming decades. Riparian restoration provides opportunities to respond …

Riparian ecosystems in the 21st century are likely to play a critical role in determining the
vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change, and in influencing the …

Global biodiversity hotspots contain exceptional concentrations of endemic species in areas
of escalating habitat loss. However, most hotspots are geographically constrained and …

Rivers provide a special suite of goods and services valued highly by the public that are
inextricably linked to their flow dynamics and the interaction of flow with the landscape. Yet …

Rivers have been diminished, simplified, and degraded globally by the concentration of
agriculture, transportation, and development in valley bottoms over decades and centuries …

As an inevitable consequence of increased environmental degradation and anticipated
future environmental change, societal demand for ecosystem restoration is rapidly …

Riparian zones are the interface between aquatic and terrestrial systems along inland
watercourses. They have a disproportionate ecological role in the landscape considering …

Riparian ecosystems are hotspots for ecological restoration globally because of the
disproportionately high value and diversity of the ecological functions and services which …

In the face of rapid environmental and cultural change, orthodox concepts in restoration
ecology such as historical fidelity are being challenged. Here we re‐examine the diverse …