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View article: Incorporating the Interaction of Flow Into Invertebrate Responses to Fine Sediment Deposition in Temperate Rivers
Incorporating the Interaction of Flow Into Invertebrate Responses to Fine Sediment Deposition in Temperate Rivers Open
Fine sediment (particles < 2 mm) is a natural and important component of riverine systems. However, excessive loads are one of the leading causes of ecological degradation globally. The flow regime is intrinsically linked to fine sediment …
View article: Modeling nature‐based restoration potential across aquatic–terrestrial boundaries
Modeling nature‐based restoration potential across aquatic–terrestrial boundaries Open
Today, few watersheds remain untouched by global change processes arising from climate warming, impoundments, channelization, water extraction, pollution, and urbanization. The need for restoration has resulted in a myriad of interventions…
View article: Quality versus quantity: response of riparian bird communities to aquatic insect emergence in agro-ecosystems
Quality versus quantity: response of riparian bird communities to aquatic insect emergence in agro-ecosystems Open
In many agricultural landscapes where field drainage is required to enhance crop production, agricultural drainage ditches, and their associated banks and hedgerows can support riparian biodiversity, including bird communities. Against a g…
View article: Balancing water needs and well-being: bringing social-cultural values into environmental flows using a DPSIR framework
Balancing water needs and well-being: bringing social-cultural values into environmental flows using a DPSIR framework Open
View article: Toward a Canadian national river water quality modeling system: state of science and future prospects
Toward a Canadian national river water quality modeling system: state of science and future prospects Open
Water quality is of significant concern and ultimately critical to every Canadian’s quality of life and security. Canada has diverse and vast landscapes and stressors that impact various waterbodies differentially, with influencing factors…
View article: Quality Versus Quantity: Response of Riparian Bird Communities to Aquatic Insect Emergence in Agro-Ecosystems
Quality Versus Quantity: Response of Riparian Bird Communities to Aquatic Insect Emergence in Agro-Ecosystems Open
View article: Freshwater invertebrate responses to fine sediment stress: A multi‐continent perspective
Freshwater invertebrate responses to fine sediment stress: A multi‐continent perspective Open
Excessive fine sediment (particles <2 mm) deposition in freshwater systems is a pervasive stressor worldwide. However, understanding of ecological response to excess fine sediment in river systems at the global scale is limited. Here, we a…
View article: Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss
Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss Open
Environmental flows (e-flows) aim to mitigate the threat of altered hydrological regimes in river systems and connected waterbodies and are an important component of integrated strategies to address multiple threats to freshwater biodivers…
View article: Effects of Climate Change on Navigability Indicators of the Lower Athabasca River, Canada
Effects of Climate Change on Navigability Indicators of the Lower Athabasca River, Canada Open
The lower Athabasca River (Canada) has experienced notable declines in streamflow and increasing oil sands development since the 1970s. This study investigates the potential impacts of climate change on navigability using both observed his…
View article: Replicate <scp>DNA</scp> metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages
Replicate <span>DNA</span> metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages Open
The delivery of consistent and accurate fine‐resolution data on biodiversity using metabarcoding promises to improve environmental assessment and research. Whilst this approach is a substantial improvement upon traditional techniques, crit…
View article: The Challenge of Spatialising Point-Source Water Quality Monitoring Data for Multi-Substance Risk Assessment in the Canadian Oil Sands Region
The Challenge of Spatialising Point-Source Water Quality Monitoring Data for Multi-Substance Risk Assessment in the Canadian Oil Sands Region Open
View article: Developing environmental flow targets for benthic macroinvertebrates in large rivers using hydraulic habitat associations and taxa thresholds
Developing environmental flow targets for benthic macroinvertebrates in large rivers using hydraulic habitat associations and taxa thresholds Open
Holistic environmental flows frameworks are built on our understanding of key flow-ecology relationships that support sensitive taxa and critical ecosystem functions under different flow and water level scenarios. Most research on flow-eco…
View article: Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers
Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers Open
Rivers suffer from multiple stressors acting simultaneously on their biota, but the consequences are poorly quantified at the global scale. We evaluated the biological condition of rivers globally, including the largest proportion of count…
View article: Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain
Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain Open
The biodiversity–ecosystem function hypothesis postulates that higher biodiversity is correlated with faster ecosystem process rates and increased ecosystem stability in fluctuating environments. Exhibiting high spatiotemporal habitat dive…
View article: Considering Fish as Recipients of Ecosystem Services Provides a Framework to Formally Link Baseline, Development, and Post-operational Monitoring Programs and Improve Aquatic Impact Assessments for Large Scale Developments
Considering Fish as Recipients of Ecosystem Services Provides a Framework to Formally Link Baseline, Development, and Post-operational Monitoring Programs and Improve Aquatic Impact Assessments for Large Scale Developments Open
In most countries, major development projects must satisfy an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process that considers positive and negative aspects to determine if it meets environmental standards and appropriately mitigates or offset…
View article: Changes in geographical runoff generation in regions affected by climate and resource development: A case study of the Athabasca River
Changes in geographical runoff generation in regions affected by climate and resource development: A case study of the Athabasca River Open
Study region: This study is focused on the lower Athabasca Basin in northwestern Canada that has experienced rapid expansion of oil sands development. Study focus: The goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of the regional role…
View article: The Beautiful and the Dammed: Defining Multi-Stressor Disturbance Regimes in an Atlantic River Floodplain Wetland
The Beautiful and the Dammed: Defining Multi-Stressor Disturbance Regimes in an Atlantic River Floodplain Wetland Open
Natural hydrological fluctuations within river floodplains generate habitat diversity through variable connections between habitat patches and the main river channel. Human modification of floodplains can alter the magnitude and frequency …
View article: Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring
Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring Open
There is an urgent need for rapid, standardised, accurate and accessible monitoring techniques to better detect and quantify change given the increasing threat of degradation and biodiversity loss in freshwater ecosystems. Community-based …
View article: Rewilding watersheds: using nature’s algorithms to fix our broken rivers
Rewilding watersheds: using nature’s algorithms to fix our broken rivers Open
Rewilding is an ecological restoration concept that promotes the natural recovery of ecosystems, through (initial) active or passive removal of human influence. To support the application of rewilding approaches in rivers and their watersh…
View article: The Future of a Cold Regions Deltaic Ecosystem Influenced by Multiple Hydrological Stressors
The Future of a Cold Regions Deltaic Ecosystem Influenced by Multiple Hydrological Stressors Open
<p>The Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) in one of the largest (~6000 km<sup>2</sup>) freshwater deltaic ecosystem in the world.  This low relief, deltaic floodplain formed at the confluence of the Peace-Athabasca-Birc…
View article: Functional traits link anthropogenic impact and disturbance regimes driving ecosystem function in a floodplain wetland complex
Functional traits link anthropogenic impact and disturbance regimes driving ecosystem function in a floodplain wetland complex Open
Floodplains are disturbance-driven ecosystems with high spatial and temporal habitat diversity, making them both highly productive and hosts to high biodiversity. The unpredictable timing of flood and drought years creates a mosaic of habi…
View article: Replicate DNA metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages
Replicate DNA metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages Open
Metabarcoding is capable of delivering consistent and accurate fine-resolution biodiversity data, and offers great promise for improving aspects of environmental assessment and research. Even so, many ecologists are keen to make further in…
View article: The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview
The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview Open
The biological assessment of rivers i.e., their assessment through use of aquatic assemblages, integrates the effects of multiple-stressors on these systems over time and is essential to evaluate ecosystem condition and establish recovery …
View article: Prioritizing threat management across terrestrial and freshwater realms for species conservation and recovery
Prioritizing threat management across terrestrial and freshwater realms for species conservation and recovery Open
The need to manage threats to biodiversity, and to do so cost‐effectively, is urgent. Cross‐realm conservation management is recognized as a cost‐effective approach, but it requires collaboration between agencies and jurisdictions, and loc…
View article: The effects of taxonomy, diet, and ecology on the microbiota of riverine macroinvertebrates
The effects of taxonomy, diet, and ecology on the microbiota of riverine macroinvertebrates Open
Freshwater macroinvertebrates play key ecological roles in riverine food webs, such as the transfer of nutrients to consumers and decomposition of organic matter. Although local habitat quality drives macroinvertebrate diversity and abunda…
View article: Riparian and in-channel habitat properties linked to dragonfly emergence
Riparian and in-channel habitat properties linked to dragonfly emergence Open
View article: Deconstructing biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships: Filtering of macroinvertebrate traits in a large river floodplain
Deconstructing biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships: Filtering of macroinvertebrate traits in a large river floodplain Open
The Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function hypothesis postulates that higher biodiversity is correlated with ecosystem function by providing a high number of filled niches through species response types and resource use patterns. Through their hi…
View article: Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines Open
Anthropogenic environmental changes, or ‘stressors’, increasingly threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Multiple-stressor research is a rapidly expanding field of science that seeks to understand and ultimately predict…
View article: DNA metabarcoding reveals metacommunity dynamics in a threatened boreal wetland wilderness
DNA metabarcoding reveals metacommunity dynamics in a threatened boreal wetland wilderness Open
The complexity and natural variability of ecosystems present a challenge for reliable detection of change due to anthropogenic influences. This issue is exacerbated by necessary trade-offs that reduce the quality and resolution of survey d…
View article: Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring
Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring Open
Classical biomonitoring techniques have focused primarily on measures linked to various biodiversity metrics and indicator species. Next-generation biomonitoring (NGB) describes a suite of tools and approaches that allow the examination of…