River Res Applic. 2017;1–13. Abstract The transport of water and sediment from rivers to adjacent floodplains helps generate complex floodplain, wetland, and riparian ecosystems. However, riverside levees restrict lateral connectivity of water and sediment during flood pulses, making the re‐introduction of floodplain hydrogeomorphic processes through intentional levee breaching and removal an e...

Soils in floodplains and riparian zones provide important ecosystem functions services. These ecosystems belong to the most threatened worldwide. Therefore, management of has changed from river control restoration rivers floodplains. However, activities can also negatively impact soils these areas. Thus, a detailed knowledge is needed prevent detrimental soil changes. The aim this review theref...

Dieback of native Eucalyptus largiflorens forests is an increasing problem on the floodplains of the lower River Murray, southern Australia. Salinisation of floodplain soils, as a result of the changed hydrological management of the River Murray, appears to be a primary cause of the dieback. Regulation of the River Murray has reduced the frequency of large flood events by a factor of approximat...

Coastal flooding is a problem of increasing relevance in low-lying coastal regions worldwide. In addition to the anticipated increase in likelihood and magnitude of coastal floods due to climate change, there is rapid growth in coastal assets and infrastructure. Sustainable and integrated coastal flood management over large areas and varying coastline types cannot be simply treated as local com...

River-floodplain systems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems, but the effects of biophysical complexity at multiple scales on microbial biodiversity have not been studied. Here, we investigated how the hierarchical organization of river systems (i.e., region, floodplain, zone, habitats, and microhabitats) influences epilithic biofilm community assemblage patterns by characteriz...

Floodplains are a fundamental source of multiple functions and services. Despite their various benefits, dramatic reduction in floodplain areas has occurred most large river systems over the last few centuries, is still ongoing. Human modifications (such as regulation, dam construction, land use changes) due to economic growth, increasing population size, etc., were drivers major losses. Theref...