Restoration potential of the aquatic ecosystems of the Colorado River Delta, Mexico: Introduction to special issue on “Wetlands of the Colorado River Delta”

Linking hydrologic, physical and chemical habitat environments for the potential assessment of fish community rehabilitation in a developing city

“…Species in aquatic ecosystems that are intolerant of these changes can decline or disappear and are replaced by organisms that are more tolerant (Fraker et al, 2002;Helms et al, 2005;Morgan and Cushman, 2005;Kemp, 2014). For instance, in a large area of shifting riparian, marsh and estuarine ecosystems, the remnants of these aquatic ecosystems are largely fixed in place and cut off from each other by water management structures (Zamora et al, 2005;Glenn et al, 2013). This has been repeated around the world and in the USA the construction of 75,000 dams has contributed to declines of native fish populations (Osmundson, 2011 rivers are resilient and can recover from degraded conditions after restoration activities as habitats are often naturally dynamic and frequently experience large-scale natural disturbances such as floods (Kauffman et al, 1995;Moerke et al, 2004;Hansen and Budy, 2011).…”

Water allocation reform to meet environmental uses while sustaining irrigation: a case study of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

“…This contrasts with the very active role local organisations and environmental NGOs play in other areas of the world where they provide the initiative for environmental watering, for example in northwest USA (Garrick et al, 2009;Garrick & Bark, 2011) and in the Colorado River delta (Garrick & Bark, 2011;Glenn et al, 2013). In the MDB, these local watering organisations can contribute to the goal of vibrant irrigation communities as well as to improved ecological outcomes (Banerjee & Bark, 2013).…”

Development of monthly optimal flow regimes for allocated environmental flow considering natural flow regimes and several surface water protection targets

“…When considering EF, it must be borne in mind that the natural flow regime is one of the main characteristics of rivers and that different natural regimes can be defined (Torabi Haghighi and Kløve, 2013). The regime controls various abiotic characteristics of the river habitat (e.g., flow velocity and depth, geomorphology, temperature) that influence ecosystems in many ways (Glenn et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2014). Due to these controls on ecosystems, it can be argued that hydrological methods should be refined so that changes in the natural flow regime are kept to a minimum.…”