Evaluation of the effectiveness of physical restoration under varying hyporheic conditions for habitat and ecological improvements
ESR 12
Von 12/2014Projektleiter: Robert Grabowski
Mitarbeiter: Chiara Magliozzi
Objectives of this project:
- Develop analytical framework for physical hyporheic functioning. The framework would be a starting point to define hydromorphological stream features correlated with surface and groundwater interface and the hyporheic exchange.
- Investigate correlations between stream biota and hyporheic exchange as predicted in the physical framework in both natural and restored rivers.
- Develop indicators and tools of physical-ecological hyporheic functioning starting from the retrieved biotic and abiotic information.
- Developguidelines for river restoration practitioners that include hyporheic zone into restoration measures for better achieving ecological and habitat benefits.