Authors:
Benda, L., D. Miller and J. Barqu_n
Publication Date:
2011
Abstract/Summary:
One of the major challenges in river restoration is to identify the natural fluvial landscape in catchments with a long history of river control. Intensive land use on valley floors often predates the earliest remote sensing: levees, dikes, dams, and other structures alter valley-floor morphology, river channels and flow regimes. Consequently, morphological patterns indicative of the fluvial landscape including multiple channels, extensive floodplains, wetlands, and fluvial- riparian and tributary-confluence dynamics can be obscured, and information to develop appropriate and cost effective river restoration strategies can be unavailable. This is the case in the Pas River catchment in northern Spain (650 km2), in which land use and development have obscured the natural fluvial landscape in many parts of the basin.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Link:
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/15/2995/2011/hess-15-2995-2011.pdf