Effect of river straightening on the hydrochemical properties of floodplain lakes: Observations from the Łyna and Drwe{ogonek}ca Rivers, N Poland

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 786-795

  Glińska Lewczuk, Katarzyna ^a   Burandt, Paweł ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Channelization; Cut off channel; Dissolved oxygen; Floodplain lake; Hydrological connectivity; Nutrients; Water quality

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ADVANCED PROCESS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL FILTERS; CHANNELIZATION; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CUT-OFF; CUT-OFF CHANNEL; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN LAKE; FLOODPLAIN LAKES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HOLD UP; HYDROCHEMICALS; HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; HYDROTECHNICAL; IN-CHANNELS; MIDDLE SECTION; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER VALLEY; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; SULPHATES; TERRESTRIALIZATION; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; WATER QUALITY DATA; WATERBODIES;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODIVERSITY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEMS; FILTER BANKS; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WATER LEVELS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNELIZATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; CONNECTIVITY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; MEANDER; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER CHANNEL; SULFATE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VALLEY; WATER LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

DRWECA RIVER; LAVA RIVER; POLAND;

EID: 79955603796     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.07.028     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Amoros C., Roux A.L., Reygrobellet J.L., Bravard J.P., Pautou G. A method for applied ecological studies of fluvial hydrosystems. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 1987, 1:17-36.
2. Amoros C., Roux A.L. Interaction between waterbodies within the floodplain of large rivers: function and development of connectivity. Münstersche Geographische Arbeiten 1988, 29:125-130.
3. Brookes A. Impact of river channelization. III. Downstream morphological consequences of river channelization in England and Wales. Geogr. J. 1985, 151:57-62.
4. Brookes A. River channelization: traditional engineering methods, physical consequences and alternative practices. Prog. Phys. Geogr. 1985, 9:44-73.
5. Brookes A. Restoring the sinuosity of artificially straightened stream channels. Environ. Geol. Water Sci. 1987, 10(1):3-41.
6. Brooker M.P. Impact of river channelization. IV. The ecological effects of channelization. Geogr. J. 1985, 151:63-69.
7. Cabezas A., Garcia M., Gallardo B., Gonzalez E., Gonzalez-Sanchis M., Comin F.A. The effect of anthropogenic disturbance on the hydrochemical characteristics of riparian wetlands at the Middle Ebro River (NE Spain). Hydrobiologia 2009, 617:101-116.
8. Glińska-Lewczuk K. Oxbow lakes as biogeochemical filters for nutrient outflow from agricultural areas. Dynamics and Biogeochemistry of River Corridors and Wetlands 2005, vol. 294:55-69. IAHS Publ.
9. Glińska-Lewczuk K. Water quality dynamics of oxbow lakes in young-glacial landscape of NE Poland in relation to their hydrological connectivity. Ecol. Eng. 2009, 35:25-37.
10. Glińska-Lewczuk K., Kobus Sz., Obolewski K., Chormański J. The effect of groundwater supply on the hydrochemical diversity of flood plain lakes in the temperate climatic zone. Ecohydrology of Surface and Groundwater Dependent Systems: Concepts, Methods and Recent Developments 2009, vol. 328:139-150. IAHS Publ.
11. Glińska-Lewczuk K., Kobus Sz., Sidoruk M. The morphological characteristics of oxbow lakes in the middle River Łyna valley. Przegla{ogonek}d Naukowy SGGW Warszawa 2004, 13(30):147-159. (in Polish with English abstract).
12. Hein T., Baranyi C., Reckendorfer W., Schiemer F. The impact of surface water exchange on the nutrient and particle dynamics in side-arms along the River Danube, Austria. Sci. Total Environ. 2004, 328:207-218.
13. Hermanowicz W., Dożańska W., Dojlido J., Koziorowski B. Fizykochemiczne badania wody i ścieków 1999, Arkady, Warszawa, pp. 556 (in Polish).
14. Hockin D.L. Impact of river channelization. II. Channelization: some engineering aspects. Geogr. J. 1985, 151:54-57.
15. Johnston C.A. Sediment and nutrient retention by freshwater wetlands: effects on surface water quality. Crit. Rev. Environ. Control 1991, 21:491-565.
16. Knowlton M.F., Jones J.R. Trophic status of Missouri River floodplain lakes in relation to basin type and connectivity. Wetlands 1997, 17:468-475.
17. Knösche R. Organic sediment nutrient concentrations and their relationship with the hydrological connectivity of floodplain waters (River Havel, NE Germany). Hydrobiologia 2006, 560:63-76.
18. Naiman R.J., Décamps H. The ecology of interfaces: riparian zones. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1997, 28:621-658.
19. Obolewski K., Glińska-Lewczuk K., Kobus Sz. Effect of hydrological connectivity on the molluscan community structure in oxbow lakes of the Łyna River. Oceanol. Hydrobiol. Stud. 2009, 38:75-88.
20. Obolewski K., Glińska-Lewczuk K., Kobus Sz. An attempt at evaluating the influence of water quality on the qualitative and quantitative structure of epiphytic fauna dwelling on Stratiotes aloides L., a case study on an oxbow lake of the Łyna river. J. Elementol. 2009, 14(1):119-135.
21. Palmer M.A., Bernhardt E.S., Allan J.D., Lake P.S., Alexander G., Brooks S., Carr J., Clayton S., Dahm C., Follstad Shah J., Galat D.J., Gloss S., Goodwin P., Hart D.H., Hassett B., Jenkinson R., Kondolf G.M., Lave R., Meyer J.L., O'Donnell T.K., Pagano L., Srivastava P., Sudduth E. Standards for ecologically successful river restoration. J. Appl. Ecol. 2005, 42:208-217.
22. Penczak T., Głowacki Ł., Kostrzewa J., Kruk A., Koszalinski H., Galicka W., Marszal L., Zieba G. Influence of climate-related temporal changes on fish assemblages in oxbow lakes and in their parent Pilica River (continuation). Ecohydrol. Hydrobiol. 2003, 3(1):71-85.
23. Reckendorfer W. Effects of the hydrological connectivity between the main channel and its floodplain on benthic invertebrates. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich 2004, 34:77-98.
24. Reckendorfer W., Steel A. Effects of hydrological connectivity on hydrology, morphology and sediments. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich 2004, 34:19-30.
25. Schiemer F., Baumgartner C., Tockner K. Restoration of floodplain rivers: the Danube restoration project. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 1999, 15:231-244.
26. Schramm H.L., Cox M.S., Tietjen T.E., Ezell A.W. Nutrient dynamics in the lower Mississippi River floodplain: comparing present historic hydrologic conditions. Wetlands 2009, 29:476-487.
27. Sedell J.R., Reeves G.H., Hauer F.R., Stanford J.A., Hawkins C.P. Role of refugia in recovery from disturbances: modern fragmented and disconnected river systems. Environ. Manage. 1990, 14:711-724.
28. Sowl J.H. Restoration of riparian wetlands along a channelized river: oxbow lakes and the middle Missouri. Environmental Restoration: Science and Strategies for Restoring the Earth 1990, 294-305. J.J. Berger (Ed.).
29. Simpson P.W., Newman J.R., Keirn M.A., Matter R.M., Guthrie P.A. Manual of Stream Channelization Impacts on Fish and Wildlife 1982, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC.
30. Steiger J., James M., Gazelle F. Channelization and consequences on floodplain system functioning on the Garonne River, SW France. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 1998, 14(1):13-23.
31. ter Braak C.J.F. Ordination. Data Analyses in Community and Landscape Ecology 1995, 91-173. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. R.G.H. Jongman, C.J.F. ter Braak, O.F.R. Van Tongeren (Eds.).
32. ter Braak C.J.F., Smilauer P. Canoco for Windows 4.5. Biometrics (The Netherlands) 2002.
33. Tockner K., Pennetzdorfer D., Reiner N., Schiemer F., Ward J.V. Hydrological connectivity, and the exchange of organic matter and nutrients in a dynamic river-floodplain system (Danube, Austria). Freshwater Biol. 1999, 41:521-535.
34. Van den Brink F.W.B., de Leeuw J.P.H.M., van der Velde G., Verheggen G.M. Impact of hydrology on the chemistry and phytoplankton development in floodplain lakes along the Lower Rhine and Meuse. Biogeochemistry 1993, 19:103-128.
35. Ward J.V., Stanford J.A. Ecological connectivity in alluvial river ecosystems and its disruption by flow regulation. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 1995, 11:105-119.
36. Ward J.V., Tockner K., Schiemer F. Biodiversity of floodplain river ecosystems: ecotones and connectivity. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 1999, 15:125-139.
37. Wetzel R.G. Limnology. Lake and River Ecosystems 2001, Elsevier Science, pp. 1006. 3rd edition.
38. Wyżga B. Impact of the channelization-induced incision of the Skawa and Wisłoka Rivers, Southern Poland, on the conditions of overbank deposition. Regul. River. Res. Manage. 2001, 17:85-100.
39. Zar J.H. Biostatistical Analysis 1984, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 718.