Introduction: Following the River

River restoration: seeking ecological standards. Editor’s introduction

1. In the face of continuing anthropogenic stressors to freshwater systems worldwide , the natural resilience and resistance of the freshwater ecosystems that enables them to cope with or recover rapidly from certain levels of perturbation is under significant threat. In many systems, the changes brought about through human activities have significantly altered the physical habitat and ecologic...

Introduction: river confluences, tributaries and the fluvial network

That river systems are networks consisting of links and nodes is one of their most obvious characteristics. Despite the ubiquity of confluences and tributary networks, the first century of modern fluvial geomorphology paid little consistent attention to river junctions and the interactions between tributaries and the main stem (Kennedy, 1984). Important exceptions include classic contributions ...

An introduction to the biogeochemistry of river-coastal systems

Stakeholder and public participation in river basin management—an introduction

Participation of the public and stakeholders in river basin management is increasingly promoted because it is expected to improve resource management and enable participants to engage freely and equally in management (support democratic processes). Three overlapping and interacting mechanisms by which participation is expected to enhance river basin management are outlined: (1) providing space ...

River Water Quality in New Zealand: an Introduction and Overview

Robert J. Davies-Colley National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), PO Box 11-115, Hillcrest, Hamilton, New Zealand. ABSTRACT: River water quality is important to uses and values within rivers and also in water bodies downstream. Water quality here encompasses: the physico-chemical attributes important to aquatic life and that vary diurnally (e.g. dissolved oxygen, temperature)...