Enhancing the natural absorbing capacity of rivers to restore their resilience

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dc.contributor.authorWohl, Ellen
dc.contributor.authorFryirs, Kirstie
dc.contributor.authorGrabowski, Robert C
dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Ryan R
dc.contributor.authorSear, David
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-23T15:01:27Z
dc.date.available2024-10-23T15:01:27Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-10-23
dc.date.issued2024-11
dc.date.pubOnline2024-09-19
dc.description.abstractResilience, which can also be described as absorbing capacity, describes the amount of change that a system can undergo in response to disturbance and maintain a characteristic, self-sustaining regime of functions, processes, or sets of feedback loops. Rivers exhibit varying levels of resilience, but the net effect of industrialized anthropogenic alteration has been to suppress river resilience. As changing climate alters the inputs to rivers and human modification alters the morphology and connectivity of rivers, restoration increasingly considers how to enhance resilience. Characteristics that underpin river absorbing capacity include natural regimes, connectivity, physical and ecological integrity, and heterogeneity. River management emphasizing channel stabilization and homogenization has reduced river absorbing capacity. We propose that the paths to restoring rivers include defining relevant measures of absorbing capacity and understanding the scales of restoration and the sociopolitical elements of river restoration. We provide a conceptual framing for choosing measures that could be used to assess river absorbing capacity.
dc.description.journalNameBioScience
dc.format.extent782-796
dc.identifier.citationWohl E, Fryirs K, Grabowski RC, et al., (2024) Enhancing the natural absorbing capacity of rivers to restore their resilience. BioScience, Volume 74, Issue 11, November 2024, pp. 782-796
dc.identifier.eissn1525-3244
dc.identifier.elementsID554069
dc.identifier.issn0006-3568
dc.identifier.issueNo11
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae090
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23113
dc.identifier.volumeNo74
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)
dc.publisher.urihttps://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae090/7761973
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4102 Ecological Applications
dc.subject41 Environmental Sciences
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subject31 Biological sciences
dc.subject41 Environmental sciences
dc.titleEnhancing the natural absorbing capacity of rivers to restore their resilience
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-08-19

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