Floodplain restoration on the Upper Danube (Germany) by re-establishing water and sediment dynamics: a scientific monitoring as part of the implementation

Nachhaltigkeit in Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

“…B. Forstwirtschaft, Auenforschung, Naturgefahrenforschung) werden innerhalb der jeweiligen Disziplin regions-, objekt-oder themenbezoge Forschungsarbeiten mit mehr oder weniger starkem Fokus auf Nachhaltigkeit präsentiert (Hahn & Knoke, 2010;Stammel et al, 2012). Ziel dieser Arbeiten ist zumeist die Fortentwicklung und Umsetzung von Problemen/Lösungen für die Praxis.…”

Seven steps towards improving freshwater conservation

“…Therefore, the inclusion of reference sites where no conservation action is being planned is also necessary. In the case of restoring and connecting a large floodplain habitat with the upper Danube, the response of biota could only be linked to habitat change owing to an integrative monitoring scheme that was able to distinguish seasonal effects from restoration effects (Stammel et al, 2012;Pander et al, 2015a).…”

A new tool for assessment and monitoring of community and ecosystem change based on multivariate abundance data integration from different taxonomic groups

“…Data structure was partially different between taxonomic groups and data sets concerning quantitative or semiquantitative data, sampling methods, as well as number of sampled river stretches and treatments. Data set (1) was focused on a pairwise comparison of upstream and downstream sides of weirs in five different rivers (Mueller et al 2011;periphyton: scraping from stones and sedimentation method, macrophytes: point abundance sampling with garden rake, macroinvertebrates: surber sampling, fishes: electrofishing), data set (2) was collected from lotic and lentic freshwater habitat types (river, oxbow, drainage ditch) before and after floodplain restoration at the German section of the Danube River (Stammel et al 2012;periphyton: scraping from stones and sedimentation method, macrophytes: point abundance sampling with garden rake, macroinvertebrates: kick sampling, fishes: electrofishing) and data set (3) is focused on the effects of four substratum restoration treatments (substratum raking, two different types of gravel introduction, sickle-formed current constrictor) in three calciferous and three silicious rivers distributed throughout the German federal state Bavaria Pander et al 2014; periphyton: scraping from stones and sedimentation method, macrophytes: visual plot assessment, macroinvertebrates: surber sampling, fishes: electrofishing). Details on the sampling methods, sampling design, sample numbers and numbers of species and individuals per data set are presented in Mueller et al (2013).…”