River restoration - Complex hydrological and ecological changes: The RECORD-Project
Event details
| Date | 13.12.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Schirmer, Mario (EAWAG) |
| Location |
GR A3 31
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Restoration is an essential means to enhance the dynamic stability of rivers while correspondingly improving habitat diversity and variability and lowering long-term maintenance expenditures. Although the number of restoration projects has increased in recent years, scientific understanding is still limited with regards to the underlying principles determining how hydromorphological variability in restored river corridors relates to ecosystem functioning, biodiversity and (ground)water quality. In order to cope with the challenges of river restoration in a successful and efficient way, we need to increase our mechanistic understanding of the coupled hydrological and ecological processes in near-river corridors. Limitations in scientific advancement in these areas have especially been impaired by discipline-specific research rather than a multi-disciplinary endeavor that collaboratively investigates cause-and-effect relationships and re-examines historical assumptions and approaches. In the multi-disciplinary RECORD Project (Assessment and Modeling of Coupled Ecological and Hydrological Dynamics in the Restored Corridor of a River (Restored Corridor Dynamics)), we investigated coupled hydrological and ecological dynamics in a channelized and restored river section in northeast Switzerland by synthesizing physical, chemical, and biological experiments and modeling.
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- Barry, D. Andrew