Responses of riparian plants to habitat changes following restoration of channelized streams

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1798" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1798</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1798" target="_blank" >10.1002/eco.1798</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Responses of riparian plants to habitat changes following restoration of channelized streams

Original language description

The ecological effects of stream restoration were evaluated by comparing riparian vegetation, flooding, and habitat properties between channelized and two types of restored streams in northern Sweden. Channelized streams were straightened and cleared of in-stream boulders and wood &gt;50 years ago to facilitate timber floating. Basic restoration (performed 8-10 years ago) returned cleared material back to the channels, and enhanced restoration (3 years ago) added large structural elements (boulders and downed trees) to previously basic-restored streams. Riparian inundation duration increased only after enhanced restoration. Similarly, enhanced-restored reaches had the highest amount of substrate available for plant establishment compared to channelized and basic-restored streams. In contrast, soil biochemical properties (pH and C:N ratio) did not improve following either restoration effort. Riparian plant cover was higher at both restored types than channelized reaches. Plant species richness was higher at plot-scale level (0.25 m2) at both restored types in the most species-rich elevation levels compared to channelized reaches, whereas at the reach-scale (&gt;700 m2 of riparian area), species richness did not differ among stream types. Similarly, species composition segregated between channelized and restored reaches only at the plot scale. We found no significant differences in riparian vegetation between the two restored types. The lack of positive responses of vegetation to enhanced restoration and to variables that changed immediately after restoration (inundation, habitat area) implies that responses were either slower than expected or the changes in hydrology and substrate availability were not as important for riparian flora as believed.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecohydrology

ISSN

1936-0584

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000393870100024

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85009250290