Linking hydromorphological degradation with environmental status of Riparian ecosystems: A case study in the Stropnice river basin, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/4/460" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/4/460</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/F11040460" target="_blank" >10.3390/F11040460</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Linking hydromorphological degradation with environmental status of Riparian ecosystems: A case study in the Stropnice river basin, Czech Republic

Original language description

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the anthropogenic degradation of the riverbed and its relationship to the ecological status of the adjacent river landscape. The key objective of this research was to determine the extent of the disturbance of the selected small streams and their riparian zone in a study area located in a forest and forest-agricultural landscape in the Czech Republic. The next step was to analyze the mutual relationships between the ecological status of the riparian vegetation and the hydromorphological status of the riverbed. The main working hypothesis considered the good hydromorphological status of the river as reflected in the favorable environmental status of the surrounding riparian habitats and vice versa. It was found in more than 90% of the total length of studied watercourses that the character of linkages between channel morphology and the ecological status of riparian vegetation is directly influenced by anthropogenic activities. An interesting finding is that the degraded streams in lowland sites are often encompassed by natural or close-to-natural habitats. On the contrary, the natural status of the riverbed was found in a significantly forested headwater area, but the riparian habitats did not reach even a close-to-natural status. This paper contributes to clarifying the significance of human impact on the river morphology, reflected in the reduction of connectivity between the terrestrial and fluvial parts of the river landscape. It helps to explore the most important disturbances affecting mutual interactions between the river and the riparian habitats.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10503 - Water resources

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Forests

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

460

UT code for WoS article

000534632500098

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084642960