Andrew Warner

TL;DR: The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA) as mentioned in this paper is a framework for assessing environmental flow needs for many streams and rivers simultaneously to foster development and implementation of environmental flow standards at the regional scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adaptive, inter-disciplinary, science-based process for developing environmental flow recommendations is described, which can be tailored according to available time and resources for determining environmental flow needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe models and results from experimental flow releases associated with an environmental flow program on the Bill Williams River (BWR), Arizona, in arid to semiarid western U.S.A. They also quantified the effects of small experimental floods on the differential mortality of native and exotic riparian trees, on beaver dam integrity and distribution, and on the dynamics of differentially flow-adapted benthic macroinvertebrate groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pragmatic framework for monitoring and evaluating dam re-operation as a conservation strategy includes a balanced assessment of direct responses and long-term effects, institutional partnerships that can implement monitoring and evaluation at an ecosystem scale and improved reporting of scientific investigations to facilitate longterm monitoring and cross-site learning.

TL;DR: The Sustainable Rivers Project (SRP) as discussed by the authors is a national partnership between the United States Army Corps of Engineers and The Nature Conservancy to define and implement environmental flows through adaptive reservoir management.