A strategy to assess river restoration success

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 752-769

  Woolsey, Sharon ^a   Capelli, Florence ^a   Gonser, Tom ^a   Hoehn, Eduard ^a   Hostmann, Markus ^a   Junker, Berit ^b   Paetzold, Achim ^c   Roulier, Christian ^d   Schweizer, Steffen ^a   Tiegs, Scott D ^a,e   Tockner, Klement ^a   Weber, Christine ^a   Peter, Armin ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d Floodplain Advisory Office   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Biodiversity; Decision making; Evaluation guidelines; Floodplain; Indicators; Socio economics; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847719804     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01740.x     Document Type: Review

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