The implementation of environmental flow regimes offers a promising means to protect and
restore riverine, wetland and estuarine ecosystems, their critical environmental services and …

Highlights•Environmental flows (e-flows) are the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows
required to sustain aquatic ecosystems and human livelihoods.•The holistic e-flows concept …

Water and sediment inputs are fundamental drivers of river ecosystems, but river
management tends to emphasize flow regime at the expense of sediment regime. In an effort …

The term “environmental flows” describes the quantities, quality, and patterns of water flows
required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the ecosystem services they …

Safeguarding river ecosystems is a precondition for attaining the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) related to water and the environment, while rigid …

Storage and controlled distribution of water have been key elements of a human strategy to
overcome the space and time variability of water, which have been marked by catastrophic …

Environmental flows assessment science focuses largely on defining how modified flow
regimes (from water infrastructure and direct water abstraction) can be managed to conserve …

Highlights•We review recent advances in environmental flows concept and its
implementation.•We identify a lack of research on the governance of environmental flows.•A …

Empirical relationships between stream flow and ecological responses (flow–ecology
relationships) are essential for establishing environmental flows and evaluating tradeoffs …

The term “environmental flows” is now widely used to reflect the hydrological regime
required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, and the human livelihoods and …