The work leading to this paper has received funding for the EU’s FP7 under Grant Agreement No. 282656 (REFORM

A Buffagni

A Munné

A Ollero

A Paetzold

A Weiss

A. D. Buijse

A. M. Gurnell

AJ Davenport

AR Black

AR Ladson

B Tavzes

B Wyżga

B. Belletti

BD Richter

CA Frissel

CK Feld

CR Thorne

D Fernández

D Tickner

E. Mosselman

F Comiti

F Magdaleno

G Zolezzi

GJ Brierley

GM Kondolf

I Pardo

IP Vaughan

J Barquín

J Ferreira

J Wilhelm

J-T Shiau

K Fryirs

K Tockner

KA Fryirs

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

KL Halwas

KM Rowntree

LAWA

M González Del Tánago

M Healey

M Lehotský

M Rinaldi

M. Rinaldi

MD Newson

MG Braioni

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

N Scheifhacken

NL Poff

NM Davies

PJ Raven

RC Petersen

S Dufour

SV Oliveira

T Meile

T Xia

W Bertoldi

Environmental Earth Sciences

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Belletti, B

Rinaldi, M

Buijse, AD

Gurnell, AM

Mosselman, E

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A review of assessment methods for river hydromorphology

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Numerous hydromorphological assessment methods have been developed in different countries during recent decades, with notable differences in their aims, scales, and approaches. Although these methods are increasingly applied to support river management, the strengths and limitations have been insufficiently investigated. This review of 121 methods analyses hydromorphological assessment methods dating from 1983 to 2013, identifying their main strengths, limitations, gaps, the potential to integrate different approaches, and the need for further improvements. For this purpose methods have been grouped into four categories: (1) physical habitat assessment; (2) riparian habitat assessment; (3) morphological assessment; (4) assessment of hydrological regime alteration. Seventeen categories of information covering general characteristics, recorded features and river processes encompassing over 90 features were recorded for each method reviewed, allowing a comparative analysis of the four assessment categories. The main gap in most methods is insufficient consideration of physical processes. Thus, an integrated hydromorphological analysis is recommended, where the morphological and hydrological components are the key parts to classify hydromorphological conditions. Additional physical and riparian habitat methods strengthen the link with ecological conditions

Beletti, B.

Rinaldi, M.

Buijse, A.D.

Gurnell, A.M.

Mosselman, E.

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Numerous hydromorphological assessment methods have been developed in different countries during recent decades, with notable differences in their aims, scales, and approaches. Although these methods are increasingly applied to support river management, the strengths and limitations have been insufficiently investigated. This review of 121 methods analyses hydromorphological assessment methods dating from 1983 to 2013, identifying their main strengths, limitations, gaps, the potential to integrate different approaches, and the need for further improvements. For this purpose methods have been grouped into four categories: (1) physical habitat assessment; (2) riparian habitat assessment; (3) morphological assessment; (4) assessment of hydrological regime alteration. Seventeen categories of information covering general characteristics, recorded features and river processes encompassing over 90 features were recorded for each method reviewed, allowing a comparative analysis of the four assessment categories. The main gap in most methods is insufficient consideration of physical processes. Thus, an integrated hydromorphological analysis is recommended, where the morphological and hydrological components are the key parts to classify hydromorphological conditions. Additional physical and riparian habitat methods strengthen the link with ecological conditions.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience

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Mosselman, E. (author)

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