Print Email Facebook Twitter Riverbank protection removal to enhance habitat diversity through bar formation Title Riverbank protection removal to enhance habitat diversity through bar formation Author Wetser, A. (National University of Singapore) Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (TU Delft Environmental Fluid Mechanics) Mosselman, E. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Deltares) Penning, E. (Deltares) Duro, G. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering) Yuan, J. (National University of Singapore) Date 2017 Abstract Over the past centuries natural river banks have been transformed into banks with artificial revetments or sheet piles to protect them from erosion. Important river features for flora and fauna have disappeared and the ecological quality of the river reduced dramatically. Recently, the importance of the ecological function of rivers has been getting more attention. One river restoration measure is the removal of man-made bank protections to increase habitat diversity and biodiversity of riparian areas and the river basin. The river morphology may change due to the freely eroding banks in the restored section. Reference projects show that the removal of bank protection along rivers may lead to the formation of bars (e.g. Schirmer et al., 2014). Bars increase morphological diversity, providing specific habitats for flora and fauna (Kurth and Schirmer, 2014). There is a lack of knowledge about the formation of bars related to the length and location of the removal of bank protection. The length of river bank protection removal is usually limited, due to human activities along the riversides. Therefore, a guideline is needed for the design of bank protection removal to enhance habitat diversity through bar formation to make this a feasible river restoration method. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9c987376-9359-4b17-8a9e-854b1bc09c91 Page numbers 26-27 Event NCR-Days 2017, 2017-02-01 → 2017-02-03, Wageningen, Netherlands Bibliographical note A.J.F. Hoitink, T.V. de Ruijsscher, T.J. Geertsema, B. Makaske, J. Wallinga, J.H.J. Candel, J. Poelman (Eds.) NCR days 2017, Febr. 1-3, 2017. Book of abstracts, NCR publication 41-2017. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type abstract Rights © 2017 A. Wetser, W.S.J. Uijttewaal, E. Mosselman, E. Penning, G. Duro, J. Yuan Files PDF ncr_41_ncrdays2017_bookof ... d.pdf1.pdf 385.06 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9c987376-9359-4b17-8a9e-854b1bc09c91/datastream/OBJ/view