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Floodplain Biodiversity and Restoration: Integrated natural science and socio-economic approaches to catchment management

The Cambridge Partner (co-ordinator)

The group at Cambridge coordinates the FLOBAR2 project and includes
members of the Department of Geography and of the Department of Plant
Sciences.

Visit our experiment at Wicken Fen…

The members of the research team include:

Project co-ordinators

Professor Keith Richards (Geography-geomorphology/hydrological modelling) ksr10@cam.ac.uk
Dr. Francine Hughes (Geography-riparian ecology/environmental flows) fh13@cam.ac.uk

Researchers

Mr. Adrian Hayes (Geography- instrumentation designer) ah224@cam.ac.uk
Ms Rachel Horn (Geography PhD – flow resistance modelling) rph28@cam.ac.uk

Associated Researchers

Dr. Shaojun Xiong (Now at University of Umea, Sweden) (Floodplain woodland ecology) shaojun.xiong@eg.umu.se
Dr. Mark Winfield
(Now at NHS, Salisbury, UK)
(Cytogenetics) mark.winfield@salisbury.nhs.uk
Dr. Nadia Barsoum
(Now at CNRS, Toulouse, France)
(Riparian ecology) barsoum@ecolog.cnrs.fr

The work of FLOBAR2 at a glance…

FLOBAR2 has four main objectives. The work towards these four
objectives has been divided into 7 sub-projects (known as work packages
and labelled WP1-7):

Objective 1: To develop scientific guidelines for the application of
river flow prescriptions which benefit floodplain ecosystems while
maintaining acceptable levels of flood control.(WP1)

Objective 2: To
quantify aspects of the relationships between hydrological inputs to a
floodplain and plant response measured in terms of water consumption,
growth and the diversity of regeneration strategies.(WP2, WP3, WP4 and
WP5)

Objective 3: To investigate the flow resistance associated with
woody riparian vegetation using field studies and mathematical and
numerical modelling.(WP6)

Objective 4: To investigate and compare the
effectiveness of selected institutional arrangements for restoring
floodplain environments at different spatial scales and in different
national/local settings. (WP7).

The Cambridge Research team will be involved in the work of all
workpackages except for WP2.