Brian Richter

TL;DR: In this article, Naiman et al. pointed out that harnessing of streams and rivers comes at great cost: Many rivers no longer support socially valued native species or sustain healthy ecosystems that provide important goods and services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method for assessing the degree of hydrologic alteration attributable to human influence within an ecosystem, referred to as the "Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new approach for setting streamflow-based river ecosystem management targets and this method is called the "Range of Variability Approach" (RVA), which derives from aquatic ecology theory concerning the critical role of hydrological variability, and associated characteristics of timing, frequency, duration and rates of change, in sustaining aquatic ecosystems.

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 article, the authors propose a framework for developing an ecologically sustainable water management program, in which human needs for water are met by storing and diverting water in a manner that can sustain or restore the ecological integrity of affected river ecosystems.