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- Title
- What are we monitoring and why? Using geomorphic principles to frame eco-hydrological assessments of river condition
- Related
- Science of the total environment, Vol. 408, No. 9, (2010), p.2025-2033
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.038
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date
- 2010
- Author/Creator
- Brierley, Gary
- Author/Creator
- Reid, Helen
- Author/Creator
- Fryirs, Kirstie
- Author/Creator
- Trahan, Nadine
- Description
- Monitoring and assessment are integral components in adaptive management programmes that strive to improve the condition of river systems. Unfortunately, these procedures are generally applied with an emphasis upon biotic attributes and water quality, with limited regard for the geomorphic structure, function and evolutionary trajectory of a river system. Geomorphic principles convey an understanding of the landscape context within which ecohydrologic processes interact. Collectively, geo-eco-hydrologic understanding presents a coherent biophysical template that can be used to frame spatially and temporally rigorous approaches to monitoring that respect the inherent diversity, variability and complexity of any given river system. This understanding aids the development of management programmes that ‘work with nature.’ Unless an integrative perspective is used to monitor river condition, conservation and rehabilitation plans are unlikely to reach their true potential.
- Description
- 9 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 050200 Environmental Science and Management
- Subject Keyword
- 040600 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
- Subject Keyword
- river science
- Subject Keyword
- geomorphology
- Subject Keyword
- ecology
- Subject Keyword
- hydrology
- Subject Keyword
- water quality
- Subject Keyword
- monitoring
- Subject Keyword
- adaptive management
- Subject Keyword
- rehabilitation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Environment and Geography
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/133234
- Identifier
- mq:14476
- Identifier
- ISSN:0048-9697
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010002290
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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