Understanding the response of aquatic ecosystems to a rapidly changing environment is a challenging task that requires the participation of multidisciplinary teams to understand physical and biological processes across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Through collaboration between civil engineers, hydrologists, and biologists, we have advanced our knowledge on how fish eggs and larvae are transported in rivers, identifying preferential paths and flow conditions that lead to capture or damage of the drifting organisms. This new knowledge will help us design new monitoring and management strategies to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems, prevent the spread of invasive species, and develop better process-based strategies for stream restoration and stream naturalization.
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