Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management (eBook)

Linking sedimentation and ecology in riverine landscapes; influences of climate change and physical reconstruction measures.- Pieter Hendrik Nienhuis: aquatic ecologist and environmental scientist.- Functioning of River Systems.- BasinBox: a generic multimedia fate model for predicting the fate of chemicals in river catchments.- Trophic relationships in the Rhine food web during invasion and after establishment of the Ponto-Caspian invader Dikerogammarus villosus.- Seasonal dependent effects of flooding on plant species survival and zonation: a comparative study of 10 terrestrial grassland species.- Succession and rejuvenation in floodplains along the river Allier (France).- Airborne laser scanning as a tool for lowland floodplain vegetation monitoring.- Reproduction, growth, and migration of fishes in a regulated lowland tributary: potential recruitment to the river Meuse.- Amphibian diversity and nestedness in a dynamic floodplain river (Tagliamento, NE-Italy).- Modelling recolonisation of heterogeneous river floodplains by small mammals.- The importance of hydrodynamics for protected and endangered biodiversity of lowland rivers.- Rehabilitation of Riverine Ecosystems.- Biogeochemical constraints on the ecological rehabilitation of wetland vegetation in river floodplains.- Effects of rewetting measures in Dutch raised bog remnants on assemblages of aquatic Rotifera and microcrustaceans.- Biological traits successfully predict the effects of restoration management on macroinvertebrates in shallow softwater lakes.- Analysis of naturalization alternatives for the recovery of moist-soil plants in the floodplain of the Illinois River.- Long-term developments in ecological rehabilitation of the main distributaries in the Rhine delta: fish and macroinvertebrates.- Flood detention, nature development and water quality along the lowland river Sava, Croatia.- Challenges and Obstacles to Sustainable Management.- Water and values: ecological research as the basis for water management and nature management.- Advancing science for water resources management.- Redefinition and elaboration of river ecosystem health: perspective for river management.- Emergent principles for river management.- From river management to river basin management: a water manager’s perspective.- Discursive shifts in Dutch river management: ‘deep’ institutional change or adaptation strategy?.- Changing estuaries, changing views.- Synthesis.- Living rivers: trends and challenges in science and management.