Environmental flows - the flow regimes left in rivers, or restored to developed rivers - are a central tool helping resource managers to protect the biodiversity, resilience and ecological goods and services provided by healthy riverine ecosystems. Yet for many thousands of streams and rivers we cannot answer the question - how much water does a river need, when and how often?

This Special Issue reports new findings and provides novel insights in the science and management of environmental flows, including: synoptic reviews, methodological innovations, flow restoration experiments, modelling techniques and broader principles to support sustainable use of basin-wide freshwater resources. Based on contributions to this Special Issue, the action agenda of the 2007 Brisbane Declaration on environmental flows and the wider literature, the Editors propose an invigorated global research programme to construct and calibrate hydro-ecological models that quantify environmental flows and thereby protect the ecological goods and services provided by healthy rivers in various hydro-climatic settings across the globe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 55 Issue 1 , Pages 1 - 260 (January 2010)

Special Issue: ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS: SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT

Original articles

Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities (p 1-16)

ANGELA H. ARTHINGTON, ROBERT J. NAIMAN, MICHAEL E. McCLAIN, CHRISTER NILSSON
Published Online: Nov 25 2009 8:46PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02340.x

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Adaptive management of an environmental watering event  to enhance native fish spawning and recruitment 
(p 17-31)

A. J. KING, K. A. WARD, P. O'CONNOR, D. GREEN, Z. TONKIN, J. MAHONEY
Published Online: Mar 1 2009 11:45PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02178.x

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Environmental flows and the European Water Framework Directive (p 32-48)

M. C. ACREMAN, A. J. D. FERGUSON
Published Online: Mar 19 2009 11:47PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02181.x

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Effects of hydropower generation and opportunities for environmental flow management in Swedish riverine ecosystems (p 49-67)

BIRGITTA MALM RENÖFÄLT, ROLAND JANSSON, CHRISTER NILSSON
Published Online: May 21 2009 11:04PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02241.x

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Ecosystem effects of environmental flows: modelling and experimental floods in a dryland river (p 68-85)

PATRICK B. SHAFROTH, ANDREW C. WILCOX, DAVID A. LYTLE, JOHN T. HICKEY, DOUGLAS C. ANDERSEN, VANESSA B. BEAUCHAMP, ANDREW HAUTZINGER, LAURA E. McMULLEN, ANDREW WARNER
Published Online: Aug 13 2009 10:46PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02271.x

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Incorporating thermal regimes into environmental flows assessments: modifying dam operations to restore freshwater ecosystem integrity (p 86-107)

JULIAN D. OLDEN, ROBERT J. NAIMAN
Published Online: May 28 2009 5:41AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02179.x

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Detecting ecological responses to flow variation using Bayesian hierarchical models (p 108-126)

J. ANGUS WEBB, MICHAEL J. STEWARDSON, WAYNE M. KOSTER
Published Online: Mar 31 2009 12:00AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02205.x

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Integrated basin flow assessments: concepts and method development in Africa and South-east Asia (p 127-146)

JACKIE KING, CATE BROWN
Published Online: Oct 9 2009 2:47AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02316.x

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The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA). a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards (p 147-170)

N. LEROY POFF, BRIAN D. RICHTER, ANGELA H. ARTHINGTON, STUART E. BUNN, ROBERT J. NAIMAN, ELOISE KENDY, MIKE ACREMAN, COLIN APSE, BRIAN P. BLEDSOE, MARY C. FREEMAN, JAMES HENRIKSEN, ROBERT B. JACOBSON, JONATHAN G. KENNEN, DAVID M. MERRITT, JAY H. O'KEEFFE, JULIAN D. OLDEN, KEVIN ROGERS, REBECCA E. THARME, ANDREW WARNER
Published Online: Sep 2 2009 9:07PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02204.x

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Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management (p 171-193)

MARK J. KENNARD, BRADLEY J. PUSEY, JULIAN D. OLDEN, STEPHEN J. MACKAY, JANET L. STEIN, NICK MARSH
Published Online: Sep 8 2009 11:42PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02307.x

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Ecological responses to altered flow regimes: a literature review to inform the science and management of environmental flows (p 194-205)

N. LEROY POFF, JULIE K. H. ZIMMERMAN
Published Online: Sep 23 2009 12:21AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02272.x

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Theory. methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation-flow response guilds (p 206-225)

DAVID M. MERRITT, MICHAEL L. SCOTT, N. LeROY POFF, GREGOR T. AUBLE, DAVID A. LYTLE
Published Online: Jun 30 2009 10:19PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02206.x

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River discharge and local-scale physical habitat influence macroinvertebrate LIFE scores (p 226-242)

MICHAEL J DUNBAR, MORTEN LAUGE PEDERSEN, DAN CADMAN, CHRIS EXTENCE, JOHN WADDINGHAM, RICHARD CHADD, SØREN E. LARSEN
Published Online: Sep 17 2009 11:06PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02306.x

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The use of Bayesian networks to guide investments in flow and catchment restoration for impaired river ecosystems (p 243-260)

B. STEWART-KOSTER, S. E. BUNN, S. J. MACKAY, N. L. POFF, R. J. NAIMAN, P. S. LAKE
Published Online: Jun 15 2009 11:39PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02219.x

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