| Stream restoration projects almost always cite ecological improvements (e.g., increased habitat, improved water quality, and recovery of target species) among their objectives. Typically, the ecological outcomes are not predicted but drawn from analogy or narrative. NCED research seeks to develop the understanding and tools that will allow practice to be based on prediction, in which the outcome of a management action is predicted with specified uncertainty. In particular, we seek predictive links between physical channel structure and disturbance regime and a hierarchy of ecological response: primary productivity, nutrient processing, and species recovery.
Inaugurate field-scale ecogeomorphology experiments using high-resolution instrumentation
Develop predictive relations for physical controls on primary productivity and nutrient processing
Research gathered
Solute exchange model |
