Emily S. Bernhardt

TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper developed a comprehensive database of >37,000 river restoration projects across the United States, which are intended to enhance water quality, manage riparian zones, improve in-stream habitat, allow fish passage, and stabilize stream banks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose five criteria for measuring success of river restoration, with emphasis on an ecological perspective, and suggest standards of evaluation for each of the five criteria and provide examples of suitable indicators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the reach-scale response of invertebrate species richness to restoration actions that increased channel complexity and found that there is no evidence that physical heterogeneity should not be the primary factor controlling stream biodiversity, particularly in a restoration context.

TL;DR: Field-based empirical support is provided suggesting that sustained growth responses of forests to elevated CO(2) in low fertility soils are maintained by enhanced rates of microbial activity and N cycling fuelled by inputs of root-derived C, and to the extent that increases in exudation also stimulate SOM decomposition, such changes may prevent soil C accumulation in forest ecosystems.

TL;DR: Damage to ecosystems and threats to human health and the lack of effective mitigation require new approaches to mining regulation, including mountaintop mining with valley fills (MTM/VF), which is widespread throughout eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia.