Methods for and fish responses to channel remeandering and large wood structure placement in the Shibetsu River Restoration Project in northern Japan

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-74

  Nagayama, Shigeya ^a   Kawaguchi, Yôichi ^b   Nakano, Daisuke ^c   Nakamura, Futoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management; Fish habitat; Meandering river; Rehabilitation; Sinuous channel; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949121515     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-008-0039-2     Document Type: Article

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