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River Restoration & Biodiversity Conservation: A disorder approach
Central question for the research was the role played by river dynamic processes in the river ecosystem and its regulatory aspects, useful for the development of conservation and restoration strategies. These aspects were investigated in the terrestrial riverine communities of floodplain vegetation and riparian ground beetles and forests. This thesis contains a number of papers featuring a range of river restoration and biodiversity conservation topics, brought in the picture at different scales with an array of techniques and approaches for a wide variety of biotic communities, emphasized upon in habitat templets, population dynamic strategies, habitat networks or diagnostic species. Yet, they all tell the same story of a river expressing itself in its unique setting of geomorphology, landscape and biotic features, in a non-equilibrium relation that is governed by the flow dynamics. These observations were integrated in a river disorder approach for the target setting and objective definition of the restoration and conservation strategies. Guidelines and targets were derived for local, reach or even catchment?scale conservation strategies, based on determined responses to disorder elements of specific communities.
Lees de publicatie
- Publicatiedatum
- Mei 2006
- Publicatietype
- Boek
- Thema's
- Natuur en bos
- Auteur(s)
- Kris Van Looy