Dams contribute to water security, energy supply, and flood protection but also fragment
habitats of freshwater species. Yet, a global species-level assessment of dam-induced …

Contemporary management practices have artificially confined (strangled) river systems in
Aotearoa New Zealand to support intensified land use in riparian areas. These practices …

Only in the years 2007–2016 about 8000 large dams were constructed all over the world,
adding to> 50,000 previously built dams. These structures disturb abiotic and biotic …

Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. The
increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam‐removal studies …

It is established that dams decrease river connectivity; however, previous global scale
studies of river fragmentation focused on a small subset of the largest dams. In the United …

Legacies are persistent changes in natural systems resulting from human activities.
Legacies that affect river ecosystems can result from human alterations outside of the river …

Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through
time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are …

One of the desired outcomes of dam decommissioning and removal is the recovery of
aquatic and riparian ecosystems. To investigate this common objective, we synthesized …

The removal of two large dams on the Elwha River was completed in 2014 with a goal of
restoring anadromous salmonid populations. Using observations from ongoing field studies …

The summer of 2023 is a notable time for water‐resource management in the western
United States: Glen Canyon Dam, on the Colorado River, turns 60 years old while the …