Assessment of the potential natural status of riparian zones in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F22%3A73616131" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/22:73616131 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/23:00572220

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rra.4061" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rra.4061</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.4061" target="_blank" >10.1002/rra.4061</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of the potential natural status of riparian zones in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Riparian zones represent an important ecosystem providing a range of functions and services important to humans-for example, biodiversity support, a reduction in erosion risk, or the transport of pollutants from the surrounding landscape to watercourses. At the same time, it is an environment that has been often subjected to significant pressure during the agricultural cultivation of the landscape or the development of industrial and residential activities of human society. Thus, a large number of riparian ecosystems have been disappeared or degraded. The assessment of the overall ecological status of riparian habitats constitutes an important source of information for watercourse management and landscape planning, the aim of which should be to maintain good status or to improve the current unsatisfactory state of these habitats. However, in order to reliably evaluate the current ecological status of the landscape, it is necessary to have information on the reference status, that is, a potentially natural status that would prevail without human influence. For this purpose, a methodology that can determine the potential natural status of riparian zones for Central European conditions was developed. In this study, it was found that approximately a quarter (26%) of all river basins in the Czech Republic reach very low environmental values of the potential natural status of riparian zones and, conversely, approximately 29% of river basins are expected to develop significantly above average riparian zone quality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/LTC18069" target="_blank" >LTC18069: Small watercourses and riparian ecosystem management to mitigate the impacts of environmental change (SMART2Envi)</a><br>

Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

ISSN

1535-1459

e-ISSN

1535-1467

Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

95-107

UT code for WoS article

000864608600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85139412575