Recent advances quantifying the large wood dynamics in river basins: New methods and remaining challenges

V Ruiz‐Villanueva, H Piégay, AM Gurnell… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large wood is an important physical component of woodland rivers and significantly
influences river morphology. It is also a key component of stream ecosystems. However …

Assessing and mitigating large wood‐related hazards in mountain streams: recent approaches

B Mazzorana, V Ruiz‐Villanueva… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The assessment and mitigation of floods in mountain streams, when large wood (LW) is
transported, pose several challenges. The process chain consisting of flood propagation …

Rehabilitating valley floors to a stage 0 condition: A synthesis of opening outcomes

RL Flitcroft, WR Brignon, B Staab… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Degraded floodplains and valley floors are restored with the goal of enhancing habitat for
native fish and aquatic-riparian biota and the protection or improvement of water quality …

Representing natural and artificial in‐channel large wood in numerical hydraulic and hydrological models

S Addy, ME Wilkinson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of naturally occurring in‐channel large wood (LW) on the hydraulics,
hydrology and geomorphology of rivers is well documented. To inform management and …

Reproductive success of stream fish species in relation to high and low flow patterns: The role of life history strategies and species traits

L Mignien, S Stoll - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrological variability is a key factor in structuring biotic and abiotic processes in river
ecosystems and is of particular importance to fish populations. We used 171 hydrological …

Temporal and spatial patterns of fish response to hydromorphological processes

C Wolter, AD Buijse… - River Research and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper relates life cycle characteristics of fishes, their environmental tolerances, habitat
requirements, and resilience against hydromorphological disturbances to a recently …

Effects of vegetation patch density on flow velocity characteristics in an open channel

W Li, D Wang, J Jiao, K Yang - Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2019 - Springer
The aquatic plants are often found in natural rivers, and they affect the channel flow structure
significantly. To study the effects of the vegetation density a (the frontal area per volume) on …

Numerical modeling of instream wood transport, deposition, and accumulation in braided morphologies under unsteady conditions: Sensitivity and high‐resolution …

V Ruiz‐Villanueva, C Gamberini… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Large wood promotes fundamental changes in river hydraulics and morphology, playing a
relevant role in river ecology but also in flood hazard. Accurate predictions of large wood …

River flow as a determinant of salmonid distribution and abundance: a review

M Warren, MJ Dunbar, C Smith - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2015 - Springer
River flow regime is believed to have a fundamental effect on riverine biota. It influences key
aquatic processes, including levels of dissolved oxygen, sediment transport and deposition …

Bioenergetic habitat suitability curves for instream flow modeling: Introducing user‐friendly software and its potential applications

SM Naman, JS Rosenfeld, JR Neuswanger… - Fisheries, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat suitability curves (HSCs) are the biological component of habitat simulation tools
used to evaluate instream flow management trade‐offs (eg, the physical habitat simulation …