Mapping priorities for restoring natural river and lake function
Natural England has set up a stakeholder-based process for mapping river/stream and lake restoration priorities. It has just gone live on the FBA priority habitats website.
Natural England has set up a stakeholder-based process for mapping river/stream and lake restoration priorities. It has just gone live on the FBA priority habitats website.
Many rivers are not perennial, and experience periods of zero-flow along part or all of their channel length. Some have annual patterns of flow and zero-flow in response to groundwater level or snowmelt (intermittent), some flow only briefly in response to rainfall (ephemeral), and others dry wholly or partially because of artificial influence. These streams support a diverse range of aquatic and terrestrial ecology, including specialists that are able to exploit the changing conditions, and it is now being recognised that they deserve the same protection afforded to perennial rivers.