Although springs have been recognized as important, rare, and globally threatened
ecosystems, there is as yet no consistent and comprehensive classification system or common …

Restoration of riverine ecosys-tems is often stated as a management objective for regu-lated
rivers, and floods are one of the most effective tools for accomplishing restoration. The …

In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

Springs ecosystems are among the most structurally complicated, ecologically and biologically
diverse, productive, evolutionarily provocative, and threatened ecosystems on earth. …

The serial discontinuity concept (SDC; Ward and Stanford, in Ecology of River Systems,
1983) predicts that recovery of large regulated rivers over distance downstream from a dam is …

We used five in situ experiments to test the influence of fluctuations in river discharge on the
structure and function of the tailwaters benthos associated with cobble substrata in the …

A sequence of flood deposits left by the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona,
provides evidence of at least 15 floods with peak discharges greater than $$5500 m^{3}sec^{-1}$…

Springs ecosystems are globally abundant, geomorphologically diverse, and bio‐culturally
productive, but are highly imperiled by anthropogenic activities. More than a century of …

• I developed a method for scoring the severity of a septic process, based on deteriorated
functions in seven key organ systems of the body. The scoring system is numeric and …

Natural springs in water‐limited landscapes are biodiversity hotspots and keystone ecosystems
that have a disproportionate influence on surrounding landscapes despite their usually …