MoRPh: a citizen science tool for monitoring and appraising physical habitat changes in rivers
| Autor: | Judy England, Angela M. Gurnell, Geraldene Wharton, Brishan F. Finn Leeming, Ellie Beach, Lucy J. Shuker, David J. Gurnell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Hydrology
Environmental Engineering 0208 environmental biotechnology Sediment 02 engineering and technology STREAMS Vegetation 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Pollution 020801 environmental engineering Term (time) Habitat Citizen science Environmental science Environmental impact assessment Scale (map) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Water and Environment Journal. 31:418-424 |
| ISSN: | 1747-6593 1747-6585 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/wej.12259 |
| Popis: | The MoRPh survey is designed to enable citizen scientists to monitor physical habitat mosaics and human pressures within short (up to 40 m) river reaches called modules. MoRPh underpins a multiscale Modular River Survey, providing local information, which when collected across 10 contiguous modules, delivers a MultiMoRPh river sub-reach survey up to 400 m in length. This, in turn, contributes to a HydroMoRPh assessment of reaches extending to tens of kilometres of river length, based on secondary data sources. A 6-month trial on chalk streams, demonstrates that indices calculated from MoRPh surveys can detect notable differences in hydraulic, sediment, physical and vegetation habitat characteristics across this single river type. Further tests will evaluate applicability to other river types and ability to detect temporal changes. Development of aggregate indices for MultiMoRPh sub-reaches will aid interpretation of contemporary morphological dynamics, complementing longer term changes extracted at the reach scale by a HydroMoRPh analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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