TY - GEN
T1 - Using functional indicators to assess the river health under partial flow restoration
AU - Huang, Wei
AU - Yano, Shinichiro
AU - Lin, Lin
AU - Zhang, Jianmin
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Abstracting overmuch water from rivers to provide services like hydropower has greatly damaged river ecosystem. Therefore, restoration of the degraded river ecosystem is very urgent. A lot of methods have thereby been proposed, and partial restoration of natural flow is a kind of prescription in reality. During the restoration process, to monitor or evaluate the health of river is very important and necessary. Traditional methods to assess the condition are structural or physicochemical ones and their powers are limited. Therefore, in our study, we tried to employ some functional indicators, which are critical parts of the ecosystem, to monitor the river health based on a reference-control-impact (RCI) design. Results showed that the partial restoration of flow was effective and the functional indicators were better than the traditional ones.
AB - Abstracting overmuch water from rivers to provide services like hydropower has greatly damaged river ecosystem. Therefore, restoration of the degraded river ecosystem is very urgent. A lot of methods have thereby been proposed, and partial restoration of natural flow is a kind of prescription in reality. During the restoration process, to monitor or evaluate the health of river is very important and necessary. Traditional methods to assess the condition are structural or physicochemical ones and their powers are limited. Therefore, in our study, we tried to employ some functional indicators, which are critical parts of the ecosystem, to monitor the river health based on a reference-control-impact (RCI) design. Results showed that the partial restoration of flow was effective and the functional indicators were better than the traditional ones.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISWREP.2011.5893053
DO - 10.1109/ISWREP.2011.5893053
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960727455
SN - 9781612843377
T3 - ISWREP 2011 - Proceedings of 2011 International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Protection
SP - 501
EP - 504
BT - ISWREP 2011 - Proceedings
T2 - 2011 International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Protection, ISWREP 2011
Y2 - 20 May 2011 through 22 May 2011
ER -