NDLI: How Do Biota Respond to Additional Physical Restoration of Restored Streams?

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Author	Nilsson, Christer Sarneel, Judith M. Palm, Daniel Gardeström, Johanna Pilotto, Francesca Polvi, Lina E. Lind, Lovisa Holmqvist, Daniel Lundqvist, Hans
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Restoration of channelized streams by returning coarse sediment from stream edges to the wetted channel has become a common practice in Sweden. Yet, restoration activities do not always result in the return of desired biota. This study evaluated a restoration project in the Vindel River in northern Sweden in which practitioners further increased channel complexity of previously restored stream reaches by placing very large boulders (>1 m), trees (>8 m), and salmonid spawning gravel from adjacent upland areas into the channels. One reach restored with basic methods and another with enhanced methods were selected in each of ten different tributaries to the main channel. Geomorphic and hydraulic complexity was enhanced but the chemical composition of riparian soils and the communities of riparian plants and fish did not exhibit any clear responses to the enhanced restoration measures during the first 5 years compared to reaches restored with basic restoration methods. The variation in the collected data was among streams instead of between types of restored reaches. We conclude that restoration is a disturbance in itself, that immigration potential varies across landscapes, and that biotic recovery processes in boreal river systems are slow. We suggest that enhanced restoration has to apply a catchment-scale approach accounting for connectivity and availability of source populations, and that low-intensity monitoring has to be performed over several decades to evaluate restoration outcomes.
Starting Page	144
Ending Page	162
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14329840
Journal	Ecosystems
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14350629
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-08-03
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	fish geomorphic complexity hydraulics ice landscape scale restoration riparian chemistry riparian plants Sweden Ecology Plant Sciences Zoology Environmental Management Geoecology/Natural Processes Hydrology/Water Resources
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Environmental Chemistry Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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