The degradation of inland aquatic habitats caused by decades of human activities has led to
worldwide efforts to rehabilitate freshwater habitats for fisheries and aquatic resources. We …

Large wood (LW) elements transported during large floods are long known to have the
capacity to induce dangerous obstructions along the channel network, mostly at bridges and …

Process-based restoration aims to reestablish normative rates and magnitudes of physical,
chemical, and biological processes that sustain river and floodplain ecosystems. Ecosystem …

Despite decades of research on wood in rivers, the addition of wood as a river restoration
technique remains controversial. We reviewed the literature on natural and placed wood to …

Extensive degradation of ecosystems, combined with the increasing demands placed on the
goods and services they provide, is a major driver of biodiversity loss on a global scale. In …

Large wood along rivers influences entrainment, transport, and storage of mineral sediment
and particulate organic matter. We review how wood alters sediment dynamics and explore …

The hyporheic zone below the channel and banks of many rivers where surface water and
ground water exchanges plays a crucial functional role in the biogeochemical transformation …

Instream and floodplain wood can provide many benefits to river ecosystems, but can also
create hazards for inhabitants, infrastructure, property, and recreational users in the river …

The historical removal of accumulations of wood on medium to large rivers in the continental
United States caused a fundamental change in river corridors that has received relatively …

Human-induced landscape change is difficult to predict due to the complexity inherent in
both geomorphic and social systems as well as due to the coupling relationships between …