The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

By K. Van Looy, J. Tonkin, M. Floury, C. Leigh, J. Soininen, Stefano Larsen, J. Heino, N. LeRoy Poff, Michael D. Delong, S. Jähnig and 7 more. Rivers Research and Applications: an international journal devoted to river research and management, 2019

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Resilience in river ecosystems requires that organisms must persist in the face of highly dynamic hydrological and geomorphological variations. Disturbance events such as floods and droughts are postulated to shape life history traits that support resilience, but river management and conservation would benefit from greater understanding of the emergent effects in communities of river organisms.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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