“…New bed forms originated by the construction of dams introduce significant changes in the channel geometry, therefore, in the hydraulic radius, on which depends the degree of roughness of the vegetation (Sandercock et al, 2007). The water depth, and particularly the hydraulic radius, has an unequal effect on the vegetative roughness, depending on the biotechnical characteristics of each species or plant formation, and whether it is totally or partially submerged (Coon 1998;Defra/EA, 2003;Mustaffa et al, 2016). Figure 7 displays the relationship between the hydraulic radius and the vegetation roughness coefficient (nv) estimated for different shrub and scrub formations in the sections upstream of the final check dam (T1).…”