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0000-0002-1977-4175
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University of California Davis
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2019
DOI: 10.1002/ECO.2050
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-05-2018
DOI: 10.1002/RRA.3293
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-09-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2019.06.095
Abstract: Streams draining urban catchments ubiquitously undergo negative physical and ecosystem changes, recognized to be primarily driven by frequent stormwater runoff input. The common management intervention is rehabilitation of channel morphology. Despite engineering design intentions, ecohydraulic benefits of urban channel rehabilitation are largely unknown and likely limited. This investigation uses an ecohydraulic modeling approach to investigate the performance of alternative channel design configurations intended to restore key ecosystem functioning in urban streams. Channel reconfiguration design scenarios, specified to emulate the range of channel topographic complexity often used in rehabilitation are compared against a reference 'natural' scenario using ecologically relevant hydraulic metrics. The results showed that the ecohydraulic conditions were incremental improved with the addition of natural oscillations to an increasing number of in idual topographic variables in a degraded channel. Results showed that reconfiguration reduced excessive frequency of bed mobility, loss of habitat and hydraulic ersity particularly as more topographic variables were added. However, the results also showed that none of the design scenarios returned the ecohydraulics to their reference conditions. This indicate that channel-based restoration can offer some potential changes to hydraulic habitat conditions but are unlikely to completely mitigate the effects of hydrologic change. We suggest that while reach-scale channel modification may be beneficial to restore urban stream, addressing altered hydrology is critical to fully recover natural ecosystem processes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2018.12.023
Abstract: The potential for catchment-scale stormwater control measures (SCMs) to mitigate the impact of stormwater runoff issues and excess stormwater volume is increasingly recognised. There is, however, limited understanding about their potential in reducing in-channel disturbance and improving hydraulic conditions for stream ecosystem benefits. This study investigates the benefits that SCM application in a catchment have on in-stream hydraulics. To do this, a two-dimensional hydraulic model was employed to simulate the stream hydraulic response to scenarios of SCM application applied in an urban catchment to return towards pre-development hydrologic pulses. The hydraulic response analysis considered three hydraulic metrics associated with key components of stream ecosystem functions: benthic mobilization, hydraulic ersity and retentive habitat availability. The results showed that when applied intensively, the developed SCM scenarios could effectively restore the in-stream hydraulics to close to natural levels. Compared to an unmanaged urban case (no SCMs), SCM scenarios yielded channels with reduced bed mobility potential, close to natural hydraulic ersity and improvement of retentive habitat availability. This indicates that mitigating the effect of stormwater driven hydrological change could result in significant improvements in the physical environment to better support ecosystem functioning. We therefore suggest that intensive implementation of SCMs is an important action in an urbanizing catchment to maintain the flow regime and hydraulic conditions that sustain the 'natural' stream habitat functioning. We propose that stormwater management and protection of stream ecosystem processes should incorporate hydraulic metrics to measure the effectiveness of management strategies.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Location: United States of America
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