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Riparian-zone restoration

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The Hydro-Morphological Index of Diversity

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

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

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

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

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

Possible climate change impacts on the hydrological and vegetative character of Everglades National Park, Florida

Andrea Rinaldo

The increasing threat of global climate change is predicted to have immense influences on ecosystems worldwide, but could be particularly severe to vulnerable wetland environments such as the Everglades. This work investigates the impact global climate cha ...

2012

Heterogeneity of soil carbon pools and fluxes in a channelized and a restored floodplain section (Thur River, Switzerland)

Claire Guenat, Edward Mitchell, François Gillet, Bertrand Fournier

Due to their spatial complexity and dynamic nature, floodplains provide a wide range of ecosystem functions. However, because of flow regulation, many riverine floodplains have lost their characteristic heterogeneity. Restoration of floodplain habitats and ...

2011

Mechanisms of vegetation uprooting by flow in alluvial non-cohesive sediment

Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

The establishment of riparian pioneer vegetation is of crucial importance within river restoration projects. After germination or vegetative reproduction on river bars juvenile plants are often exposed to mortality by uprooting caused by floods. At later s ...

2011

Modern comprehensive approach to monitor the morphodynamic evolution of a restored river corridor

Paolo Perona

River restoration has become a common measure to repair anthropogenically-induced alteration of fluvial ecosystems. The inherent complexity of ecohydrologic systems leads to limitations in understanding the response of such systems to restoration over time ...

2011

Impact of a large tropical reservoir on riverine transport of sediment, carbon, and nutrients to downstream wetlands

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bernhard Wehrli

Large dams can have major ecological and biogeochemical impacts on downstream ecosystems such as wetlands and riparian habitats. We examined sediment removal and carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) cycling in Itezhi-Tezhi Reservoir (ITT; area = 36 ...

Amer Geophysical Union2011

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