Domesticated ecosystems and novel communities: challenges for the management of large rivers

摘要: Abstract Throughout the last centuries most large rivers have increasingly become humandominated ecosystems as a result of land reclamation, floodplain drainage, hydropower production, and channelization for navigation. Their domestication, i.e. their optimization few ecosystem services, has fundamentally altered habitat conditions led to formation novel biotic communities well truncation vital processes. Current conservation management strategies do not yet cope with dramatic alterations rivers. Concurrently, river competes more human-focused targets directives in energy, flood control agricultural sectors. Therefore, there is an urgent need innovative, adaptive sustainably manage domesticated through increasing levels active intervention.