River Restoration Planning for the Rio Grande Headwaters, Colorado

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Gibbens ◽  
Brian Hyde ◽  
Kirk Thompson ◽  
Christopher D. Lidstone
Keyword(s):  
River Restoration ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Restoration Planning

Public Values for River Restoration Options on the Middle Rio Grande

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 762-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Weber ◽  
Steven Stewart
Keyword(s):  
River Restoration ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Middle Rio Grande

scholarly journals A multiscale statistical method to identify potential areas of hyporheic exchange for river restoration planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Magliozzi ◽  
Gianpaolo Coro ◽  
Robert C. Grabowski ◽  
Aaron I. Packman ◽  
Stefan Krause
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Method ◽  
River Restoration ◽  
Hyporheic Exchange ◽  
Restoration Planning

scholarly journals Defining Recovery Potential in River Restoration: A Biological Data-Driven Approach

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 3339
Author(s):  
Martin A. Wilkes ◽  
Morwenna Mckenzie ◽  
Marc Naura ◽  
Laura Allen ◽  
Mike Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Restoration ◽  
Reference Conditions ◽  
River System ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Nutrient Inputs ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Restoration Planning ◽  
Recovery Potential ◽  
Restoration Measures

Scientists and practitioners working on river restoration have made progress on understanding the recovery potential of rivers from geomorphological and engineering perspectives. We now need to build on this work to gain a better understanding of the biological processes involved in river restoration. Environmental policy agendas are focusing on nature recovery, reigniting debates about the use of “natural” reference conditions as benchmarks for ecosystem restoration. We argue that the search for natural or semi-natural analogues to guide restoration planning is inappropriate due to the absence of contemporary reference conditions. With a catchment-scale case study on the invertebrate communities of the Warwickshire Avon, a fifth-order river system in England, we demonstrate an alternative to the reference condition approach. Under our model, recovery potential is quantified based on the gap between observed biodiversity at a site and the biodiversity predicted to occur in that location under alternative management scenarios. We predict that commonly applied restoration measures such as reduced nutrient inputs and the removal of channel resectioning could be detrimental to invertebrate diversity, if applied indiscriminately and without other complementary measures. Instead, our results suggest considerable potential for increases in biodiversity when restoration measures are combined in a way that maximises biodiversity within each water body.

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