River Floodplain Restoration
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 11637
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecohydraulics; floodplains; socio-ecological systems; resilience; climate change; headwater systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
River floodplains are some of the most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems on earth. Fluvial dynamics associated with flooding play a major role in maintaining a diversity of lotic, lentic, and semi-aquatic habitat types across space and time. Further, a river’s lateral connectivity with its floodplain supports hydrodynamic, geomorphic, and ecological processes that sustain diverse ecosystems while providing ecosystem services such as floodwave attenuation and improved water quality. In spite of the important functions provided by river floodplains, humans have dramatically modified floodplain features and the supporting natural flow regimes for nearly every major river in the temperate zone, and this has been accompanied by a loss in biodiversity and the underlying hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological functionality. To address this challenge, governments around the world have invested heavily in restoring floodplain systems, using both direct and indirect methods. Direct methods include mechanical interventions to stabilize, destabilize, reconnect, or otherwise construct desired floodplain forms, along with clearing of invasive vegetation species, levee setbacks, and even removal of infrastructure. Indirect approaches are focused on restoring components of the natural flow and sediment regimes along with other watershed and riparian corridor management approaches. This Special Issue aims to advance understanding of fundamental and practical elements of river floodplain restoration approaches including advancements in restoration frameworks, design approaches, numerical models, applications of remote sensing, significant case studies, and other relevant research. We are particularly interested in retrospective articles that critique and advance understanding of floodplain restoration approaches based on historical projects.
Dr. Mark C. Stone
Dr. Ryan R. Morrison
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- floodplains
- connectivity
- restoration
- hydrodynamics
- morphodynamics
- biodiversity
- natural flow regime
- sediment transport
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