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"Are We Meeting the Challenges
of Landscape-Scale Riverine Research?
A Review"

E. Ashley Steel et al.

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Drivers of large-scale riverine research
	2.1	Policy drivers
	2.2	Ecological drivers
	2.3	Technological drivers
3	Conceptual history of landscape-scale riverine research
4	Challenges to landscape riverine research
	4.1	Has new research utilized the strengths of new technologies or are we doing the same old stuff with more expensive data?
	4.2	Have we incorporated key concepts from landscape ecology to improve our understanding of how landscapes affect rivers?
	4.3	Have we been able to use landscape analyses to address management and policy needs?
5	Opportunities in landscape-scale riverine research
	5.1	Moving toward mechanism
	5.2	Spatio-temporal structure of human impacts
	5.3	Statistical opportunities
	5.4	Defining the right metrics
6	Conclusions
7	Acknowledgements
A	Appendix: Landscape perspectives of rivers
	References
	Figures
	Tables

7 Acknowledgements

We thank Beth Sanderson and Mindi Sheer, NOAA’s NW Fisheries Science Center, and Lucinda Johnson, University of Minnesota, for careful and constructive manuscript reviews that substantially improved the manuscript. Sean Luis provided endless hours of assistance tracking down and formatting references. This manuscript was stimulated by presentations during, and discussions following, the 2008 annual meeting of the International Association of Landscape Ecology in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Partial funding for manuscript preparation was provided by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant RM832827 to Oregon State University, the Austrian – American Education Commission, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.