Numerous hydromorphological assessment methods have been developed in different
countries during recent decades, with notable differences in their aims, scales, and …

Quantifying the effects of multiple stressors on Alpine freshwater ecosystems is challenging,
due to the lack of tailored field campaigns for the contemporaneous measurement of …

We present a new hydro-morphological index of diversity (HMID), a tool aimed for use in
river engineering projects and firstly developed at gravel-bed streams in Switzerland, but …

In accordance with the aims of the EU funded AQEM Project, an assessment system module
based on aquatic macroinvertebrates was developed for small sized rivers in the southern …

A wide variety of methodologies have been proposed for characterising river habitats in
order to meet different environmental objectives. However, mid-to long-term monitoring of …

The AQEM Project aims to develop a Europe-wide system for monitoring the ecological
quality of rivers using macroinvertebrates, to satisfy the requirements of the EU Water …

La dinámica fluvial es la clave no sólo del funcionamiento, sino también del valor ecológico,
paisajístico y ambiental de los sistemas fluviales. Si se quiere conservar un río como …

ABSTRACT River Habitat Survey (RHS) is a system which records and quantifies the
physical and vegetational structure of river channels and their immediate floodplains. In the …

This paper compares the ecological response of reaches treated with traditional (check
dams, CDs) and morphologically based (artificial steps, ASs) grade‐control works installed …

The purpose of this study was to test the applicability of different methods of river habitat
assessment and their respective indices in a series of sample sites in Italy. These …