Agriculture, the world's most dominant land use type, burdens freshwater biodiversity with a multitude of stressors such as diffuse pollution and hydromorphological alteration. However …
River flows are greatly influenced by floodplain vegetation with implications on hydrological and hydraulic conditions from cross-sectional to river reach scales. Flow models need to …
While the general effects of agricultural land use on riverine biota are well documented, the differential effects of specific crop types on different riverine organism groups, remain largely …
Agriculture has been identified as a main cause for more than 90% of Germany´ s rivers still not meeting good ecological status in 2021. While many large-scale studies observed a …
DJ Brettschneider, T Spring, M Blumer, L Welge… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Background For more than 20 years, restoration measures have been conducted on watercourses in Germany to increase habitat diversity and thus promote biodiversity …
Riparian zones act as ecological engineers through stream bank stabilization, pollutant buffering, energy provision to food webs, and groundwater recharge. In the ongoing …
Conventional dredging of ditches and streams to ensure agricultural drainage and flood mitigation can have severe environmental impacts. The aim of this paper is to investigate the …
Thermal pollution of rivers degrades water quality and ecosystem health, and cities can protect rivers by decreasing warmer impervious surface stormwater inflows and increasing …
Abstract The Ganga River is the national river of India due to its very high socio-cultural, economic and ecological significance. It forms the largest river basin of India that supports …