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Stream restoration

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Sediment contamination assessment in urban areas based on total suspended solids

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Jonas Margot, Nathalie Chèvre Rossi, Romuald Curdy

Sediment represents an important compartment in surface waters. It constitutes a habitat or spawning site for many organisms and is an essential trophic resource for higher level organisms. It can be impacted by anthropogenic activities, particularly throu ...

Elsevier2013

Improving stream flow discharge modelling during snow melt

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Charles Fierz

The importance of the snow cover for the hydrological cycle is well known but the understanding is still limited. For example, the effect of rain-on-snow on melt water runoff and the coupling between spring snow melt and stream flow discharge are difficult ...

2013

The Hydro-Morphological Index of Diversity

Walter Gostner

Contemporary river engineering must guarantee effective long-term flood protection while also improving stream ecology. Nowadays, river engineering projects must aim at optimizing hydromorphological heterogeneity, as this is an acknowledged basic condition ...

EPFL2012

Les démarches pour favoriser un développement territorial durable en Suisse

Sʼappuyant sur les travaux de recherche menés au sein du Laboratoire d'architecture et technologies durables de lʼEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne et sur différents projets développés au sein de l'agence Bauart, le présent article propose et dévelo ...

Editions de la Villette, Collection Etudes et Recherches2012

A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in environmental projects

Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Marc Parlange, Vincent Luyet

Participation has emerged as an appropriate approach for enhancing natural resources management. However, despite long experimentation with participation, there are still possibilities for improvement in designing a process of stakeholder involvement by ad ...

Elsevier2012

Patterns of earthworm communities and species traits in relation to the perturbation gradient of a restored floodplain

Edward Mitchell, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Bertrand Fournier

Little is known about the diversity and ecology of earthworms in flocdplains, as well as their response to natural and anthropic perturbations (e.g. floods, river channelisation, floodplain restoration). We characterised the patterns of earthworm communiti ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Toward the use of testate amoeba functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success

Edward Mitchell, Bertrand Fournier

Functional traits (FT) offer a new framework to understand the ecology of organisms and overcome taxonomic difficulties that currently limit the study of minute soil taxa. FT are likely to be selected by environmental filters and hence they may provide mor ...

2012

Hypolimnetic Oxygen Depletion in Eutrophic Lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

The oxygen-consuming processes in the hypolimnia of freshwater lakes leading to deep-water anoxia are still not well understood, thereby constraining suitable management concepts. This study presents data obtained from 11 eutrophic lakes and suggests a mod ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Modeling of Sediment Management for the Lavey Run-of-River HPP in Switzerland

Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Michael Müller

Reservoir sedimentation hinders the operation of the Lavey run-of-river hydropower plant (HPP) on the Rhone River in Switzerland. Deposits upstream of the gated weir and the lateral water intake reduce the flood release capacity and entrain sediments into ...

2012

Effects of streamflow variability on the vertical root density distribution of willow cutting experiments

Paolo Perona

The use of riparian tree cuttings for river rehabilitation relies on a good understanding of cutting survival and growth responses to environmental variables. A series of experiments aimed at studying the effects of water table fluctuation induced by strea ...

Elsevier2012

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