Abstract
Kondolf, G. M., A. J. Boulton, S. O'Daniel, G. C. Poole, F. J. Rahel, E. H. Stanley, E. Wohl, A. Bång, J. Carlstrom, C. Cristoni, H. Huber, S. Koljonen, P. Louhi, and K. Nakamura 2006. Process-based ecological river restoration: visualizing three-dimensional connectivity and dynamic vectors to recover lost linkages. Ecology and Society 11(2): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01747-110205
Highlights
Connectivity is widely acknowledged as a fundamental property of all ecosystems
Drawing upon examples in the literature and from our experience, we developed conceptual models and used simple bivariate plots to visualize human impacts and restoration efforts in terms of connectivity and flow dynamics
We focus on the relationship between hydrologic connectivity and flow variability, i.e., 1University of California, Berkeley, 2Ecosystem Management, University of New England, 3University of California-Santa Barbara, 4Eco-metrics, Inc. and University of Georgia, 5University of Wyoming, 6University of Wisconsin, 7Colorado State University, 8Mid Sweden University, 9National Board of Fisheries, 10University of Munich, 11University of Jyväskylä, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, 12Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, 13Public Works Research Institute, Japan
Summary
Connectivity is widely acknowledged as a fundamental property of all ecosystems. The concept was introduced to ecology through landscape ecology as a factor explaining distribution of species (Merriam 1984, Moilanen and Nieminen 2002). Pringle (2001:981) defined hydrologic connectivity as "water mediated transfer of matter, energy, and organisms within or between elements of the hydrologic cycle." in rivers, hydrologic connectivity refers to the water-mediated fluxes of material, energy, and organisms within and among components, e.g., the channel, flood plain, alluvial aquifer, etc., of the ecosystem. This hydrologic connectivity can be viewed as operating in longitudinal, lateral, and vertical dimensions and over time (Ward 1989)
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