Background Drainage activities have caused widespread wetland loss, groundwater
drawdown and impairment of ecosystem services. There are now several national programs …

Climate change uncertainty poses serious challenges to conservation efforts. One emerging
conservation strategy is to identify and conserve climate change refugia: areas relatively …

Dam removal is becoming more common as aging infrastructure deteriorates and people
seek to restore the environmental conditions created by dams. Despite this growth in dam …

Stream restoration practitioners and researchers have devoted a great deal of effort in recent
decades to developing extensive guidance for stream restoration. The available resources …

Increasing frequency and severity of droughts have motivated natural resource managers to
mitigate harmful ecological and hydrological effects of drought, but drought mitigation is an …

Beaver‐mimicry stream restoration (BMR) involves the alteration of a stream channel to
approximate the effects of beaver activity. Project objectives often include increasing …

Context Mountain meadows occur in specific geomorphological conditions where low-
gradient topography promotes fine sediment accumulation and high groundwater tables …

Restoration practitioners spend more than $1 billion each year restoring US rivers and
streams but commit comparatively few resources to evaluating project effectiveness …

Amphibians are among the most sensitive taxa to climate change, and species inhabiting
arid and semiarid landscapes at the extremes of their range are especially vulnerable to …

Floral richness drives pollinator diversity after fire in upland forests and meadows of the Sierra
Nevada, California Page 1 Received: 11 May 2023 Accepted: 9 May 2024 DOI …