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This special issue "Rehabilitating large regulated rivers" of the Large Rivers supplement series of Archiv für Hydrobiologie comprehensively documents the presentations given at the International Conference "Lowland River Rehabilitation 2003", held in Wageningen (the Netherlands), September 29 to October 2, 2003. The Netherlands Centre for River Studies (NCR) and the Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment RIZA organized the conference. More than 50 oral contributions and over 40 posters were presented, 45 of which, from 14 different countries, are published as peer-reviewed high-quality papers in this issue. The issue concludes with a synthesis paper that gives an overview of recent progress in Europe and North America structured along these three themes, addressing the management needs and making recommendations for a future research agenda on rehabilitation of large regulated rivers.