Truths of the Riverscape: Moving beyond command-and-control to geomorphologically informed nature-based river management

Things we can do now that we could not do before: Developing and using a cross-scalar, state-wide database to support geomorphologically-informed river management

(2021) Kirstie Fryirs et al.   PLoS One

Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity

(2021) Guohuan Su et al.   SCIENCE

Promoting fluvial geomorphology to “live with rivers” in the Anthropocene Era

(2021) J. Horacio García et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems

(2021) Damion C Ciotti et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Modelling sediment (dis)connectivity across a river network to understand locational‐transmission‐filter sensitivity for identifying hotspots of potential geomorphic adjustment

(2021) Sana Khan et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

‘Fluvial geomorphology and environmental design’: Restitution for damage, rehabilitation, restoration or rewilding?

(2021) Malcolm Newson   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

How far have management practices come in ‘working with the river’?

(2021) Kirstie Fryirs et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Assemblages of geomorphic units: A building block approach to analysis and interpretation of river character, behaviour, condition and recovery

(2021) Kirstie Fryirs et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

The dark art of interpretation in geomorphology

(2021) Gary Brierley et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis

(2020) James S. Albert et al.   AMBIO

Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan

(2020) David Tickner et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Machine Learning Predicts Reach‐Scale Channel Types from Coarse‐Scale Geospatial Data in a Large River Basin

(2020) Hervé Guillon et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Let the river erode! Enabling lateral migration increases geomorphic unit diversity

(2020) R.D. Williams et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Linking contemporary river restoration to economics, technology, politics, and society: Perspectives from a historical case study of the Po River Basin, Italy

(2020) Fabrizio Frascaroli et al.   AMBIO

Facets and scales in river restoration: Nestedness and interdependence of hydrological, geomorphic, ecological, and biogeochemical processes

(2020) Lina E. Polvi et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Assessing river condition: A multiscale approach designed for operational application in the context of biodiversity net gain

(2020) Angela M. Gurnell et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Planning nature-based solutions: Principles, steps, and insights

(2020) Christian Albert et al.   AMBIO

Managing sediment (dis)connectivity in fluvial systems

(2020) Ronald E. Poeppl et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Using a system thinking approach to assess the contribution of nature based solutions to sustainable development goals

(2020) Eulalia Gómez Martín et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

More than one million barriers fragment Europe’s rivers

(2020) Barbara Belletti et al.   NATURE

The stream evolution triangle: Integrating geology, hydrology, and biology

(2019) Janine M. Castro et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science

(2019) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Catchment-scale cumulative impact of human activities on river channels in the late Anthropocene: Implications, limitations, prospect

(2019) Peter W. Downs et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

How to build a digital river

(2019) Rocko A. Brown et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Changing landscapes: Five decades of applied geomorphology

(2019) J.M. Hooke   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future

(2019) Jonathan D. Tonkin et al.   NATURE

Biomic river restoration: A new focus for river management

(2019) Matthew F. Johnson et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Remotely sensed rivers in the Anthropocene: state of the art and prospects

(2019) Hervé Piégay et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

(2018) Ellen Wohl et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

The science of connected ecosystems: What is the role of catchment-scale connectivity for healthy river ecology?

(2018) Ian C. Fuller et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Tracking geomorphic recovery in process-based river management

(2018) Kirstie A. Fryirs et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Why coastal regulations fail

(2018) William J. Neal et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

What’s wrong with healthy rivers? Promise and practice in the search for a guiding ideal for freshwater management

(2018) Brendon Blue   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Integrating the social, hydrological and ecological dimensions of freshwater health: The Freshwater Health Index

(2018) Derek Vollmer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Rivers are social-ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

(2018) Jason B. Dunham et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

LiDAR-based fluvial remote sensing to assess 50-100-year human-driven channel changes at a regional level: the case of the Piedmont Region, Italy

(2018) S. Bizzi et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Integrating diverse social and ecological motivations to achieve landscape restoration

(2018) Sacha Jellinek et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A geomorphic perspective on the rights of the river in Aotearoa New Zealand

(2018) Gary Brierley et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Beyond Regime: A Stochastic Model of Floods, Bank Erosion, and Channel Migration

(2018) S. L. Davidson et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

(2018) Andrea J. Reid et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Anthropogenic stresses on the world’s big rivers

(2018) Jim Best   Nature Geoscience

River stresses in anthropogenic times

(2018) Mark G Macklin et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

A process-based approach to restoring depositional river valleys to Stage 0, an anastomosing channel network

(2018) Paul D. Powers et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

A systematic review of assessment and conservation management in large floodplain rivers – Actions postponed

(2018) Tibor Erős et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A geomorphic assessment to inform strategic stream restoration planning in the Middle Fork John Day Watershed, Oregon, USA

(2017) Gary R. O’Brien et al.   Journal of Maps

Lack of maintenance is a major challenge for stream restoration projects

(2017) Harriet Elizabeth Moore et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Using ecosystem engineers as tools in habitat restoration and rewilding: beaver and wetlands

(2017) Alan Law et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

“The river is us; the river is in our veins”: re-defining river restoration in three Indigenous communities

(2017) Coleen A. Fox et al.   Sustainability Science

High spatiotemporal resolution of river planform dynamics from Landsat: The RivMAP toolbox and results from the Ucayali River

(2017) Jon Schwenk et al.   Earth and Space Science

River sensitivity: a lost foundation concept in fluvial geomorphology

(2016) Kirstie A Fryirs   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Predicting gravel bed river response to environmental change: the strengths and limitations of a regime-based approach

(2016) Brett Eaton et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Self-adjustment in rivers: Evidence for least action as the primary control of alluvial-channel form and process

(2016) Gerald C. Nanson et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

A morphology independent methodology for quantifying planview river change and characteristics from remotely sensed imagery

(2016) Joel C. Rowland et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Tracking multiple sediment cascades at the river network scale identifies controls and emerging patterns of sediment connectivity

(2016) Rafael J. P. Schmitt et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Assessing the geomorphic recovery potential of rivers: forecasting future trajectories of adjustment for use in management

(2016) Kirstie A. Fryirs et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Naturalness and Place in River Rehabilitation

(2016) Kirstie Fryirs et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

A multi-scale hierarchical framework for developing understanding of river behaviour to support river management

(2015) A. M. Gurnell et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

The Natural Sediment Regime in Rivers: Broadening the Foundation for Ecosystem Management

(2015) Ellen Wohl et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Freedom space for rivers: An economically viable river management concept in a changing climate

(2015) Thomas Buffin-Bélanger et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Geomorphic mapping and taxonomy of fluvial landforms

(2015) Joseph M. Wheaton et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A methodological framework for hydromorphological assessment, analysis and monitoring (IDRAIM) aimed at promoting integrated river management

(2015) M. Rinaldi et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

The Use of Evolutionary Trajectories to Guide ‘Moving Targets’ in the Management of River Futures

(2015) G. J. Brierley et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Dynamic connectivity in a fluvial network for identifying hotspots of geomorphic change

(2015) Jonathan A. Czuba et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

The science and practice of river restoration

(2015) Ellen Wohl et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades

(2015) Michael P. Perring et al.   Ecosphere

Developing and using geomorphic condition assessments for river rehabilitation planning, implementation and monitoring

(2015) Kirstie A. Fryirs   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Ecological Restoration of Streams and Rivers: Shifting Strategies and Shifting Goals

(2014) Margaret A. Palmer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Freedom Space for Rivers: A Sustainable Management Approach to Enhance River Resilience

(2014) Pascale M. Biron et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A network-based framework for identifying potential synchronizations and amplifications of sediment delivery in river basins

(2014) Jonathan A. Czuba et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

River classification: theory, practice, politics

(2014) Marc Tadaki et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Characterizing geomorphological change to support sustainable river restoration and management

(2014) Robert C. Grabowski et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Training the Next Generation of River Warriors

(2013) Mary C. Freeman   BIOSCIENCE

Plants as river system engineers

(2013) Angela Gurnell   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Ethnogeomorphology

(2013) Deirdre Wilcock et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Reading the landscape

(2013) Gary Brierley et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Use of Stream Power as an Indicator of Channel Sensitivity to Erosion and Deposition Processes

(2013) S. Bizzi et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

(Dis)Connectivity in catchment sediment cascades: a fresh look at the sediment delivery problem

(2012) Kirstie Fryirs   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Use of ergodic reasoning to reconstruct the historical range of variability and evolutionary trajectory of rivers

(2012) Kirstie Fryirs et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead

(2011) Katharine N. Suding   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation

(2011) Emily S. Bernhardt et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Why is achieving good ecological outcomes in rivers so difficult?

(2011) GRAHAM P. HARRIS et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Process-based Principles for Restoring River Ecosystems

(2010) Timothy J. Beechie et al.   BIOSCIENCE

River restoration, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity: a failure of theory or practice?

(2010) MARGARET A. PALMER et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

What are we monitoring and why? Using geomorphic principles to frame eco-hydrological assessments of river condition

(2010) Gary Brierley et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Don’t Fight the Site: Three Geomorphic Considerations in Catchment-Scale River Rehabilitation Planning

(2009) Gary Brierley et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

From the myth of a lost paradise to targeted river restoration: forget natural references and focus on human benefits

(2009) Simon Dufour et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Bank Erosion as a Desirable Attribute of Rivers

(2008) Joan L. Florsheim et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The relationship between geomorphic river adjustment and management actions over the last 50 years in the Upper Hunter Catchment, NSW, Australia

(2008) Alexandra Spink et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

GEOLOGY: Dreams of Natural Streams

(2008) D. R. Montgomery   SCIENCE