Robert J. Naiman

TL;DR: This article explores the special features of freshwater habitats and the biodiversity they support that makes them especially vulnerable to human activities and advocates continuing attempts to check species loss but urges adoption of a compromise position of management for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem functioning and resilience, and human livelihoods.

TL;DR: Riparian zones possess an unusually diverse array of species and environmental processes as discussed by the authors, related to variable flood regimes, geographically unique channel processes, altitudinal climate shifts, and upland influences on the fluvial corridor.

TL;DR: It is argued that riparian corridors should play an essential role in water and landscape planning, in the restoration of aquatic systems, and in catalyzing institutional and societal cooperation for these efforts.

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 conclude that over half of accessible fresh runoff globally is already appropriated for human use, and that more than 1 × 109 people currently lack access to clean drinking water and almost 3 ×109 people lack basic sanitation services, and because the human population will grow faster than increases in the amount of available fresh water, per capita availability of fresh water will decrease in the coming century.