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

Publications

FLOBAR2 Project Publications:

• Allain, C.J. (2002) Relations vegetation-ecoulement-transport solides dans les lits des rivieres etudes de l’Isere dans le Gresivaudan. These, Docteur de l’INPG, Grenoble, France, 201pp [NB: link is to large .pdf file, 8.4Mb]
• Barsoum, N. (2001). Regeneration: requirements and promotion measures. In EUFORGEN Technical Bulletin: In situ conservation of Populus nigra (Editors Lefèvre, F., Barsoum,N. Heinze,B., Kajba D., Rotach, P., de Vries, S.M.G. and Turok, J.).International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy. pp-16-24.
• Barsoum, N. (2001). Relative contributions of sexual and asexual regeneration strategies in Populus nigra and Salix alba during the first years of establishment on a braided gravel bar bed. Evolutionary Ecology 15,255-279
• Barsoum, N., Muller, E. and Skot, L. (2004). Variations in levels of clonality among Populus nigra L. stands of different ages. Evolutionary Ecology (in press).
• Guilloy-Froget, H. (2002). Evaluation des conditions favorables à l’établissement de Populus nigra et Salix alba en milieu riverain. Thèse de doctorat de l’Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 146 pp.
• Guilloy-Froget, H., Muller, E, Barsoum, N. and Hughes, F.M.R. (2002) Dispersal, germination and survival of Populus nigra (L.) (Salicaceae) in changing hydrologic conditions. Wetlands 22(3):478-488
• Hughes, F.M.R. (2002) Can we manage rivers to benefit alluvial woodlands? In, Barbara van Dam and Sandor Bordacs (eds) Genetic diversity in river populations of European Black Poplar. Proceedings of an international symposium held in Szekszard, Hungary 16-20 May, 2001, pp187-196.
• Hughes, F.M.R. and Rood, S.B. (2003) Allocation of river flows for restoration of floodplain forest ecosystems: a review of approaches and their applicability in Europe. Environmental Management 32, 12-33
• Lambs, L. (2000) Correlation of conductivity and stable isotope 18O for the assessment of water origin in river system. Chemical Geology 164, 161-170
• Lambs, L. and Berthelot, M. (2002) Monitoring water from the underground to the tree: first results with a new sap extractor on a riparian woodland. Plant and Soil 242: 197-207
• Lambs, L., Loudes, J.-P. and Berthelot, M. (2002) The use of the stable oxygen isotope (O18) to follow the water distribution and absorption in riparian woodlands. Nukleotika 47: S71-S74
• Lambs L. and Muller E. (2002). Sap flow and water transfer in the Garonne River riparian woodland, France: first results on poplar and willow. Ann. For. Sci. 59: 301-315.
• Lambs, L. (2003). Mélange des eaux de la nappe phréatique et de la rivière. Actualité Chimique Sept-Aout p 48-50
• Lambs, L., Loubiat, M. and Richardson, W. (2003) The use of stable isotopes to evaluate water mixing and water use by flood plain trees along the Garonne river. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 39, 301-310
• Lambs, L. (2004) Interactions between groundwater and surface water at river banks and the confluence of rivers. Journal of Hydrology 288: 312-326
• Marigo, G., Peltier, J.-P., Girel, J. and Pautou, G. (2000) Success in the demographic expansion of Fraxinus excelsior L. Trees 15: 411-437.
• Moss, T. (2004): The Governance of Land Use in River Basins. Prospects for Overcoming Problems of Institutional Interplay with the EU Water Framework Directive. Land Use Policy , Vol 21/1, 85-94
• Moss, T. (2003): Regional Governance and the EU Water Framework Directive. Institutional Fit, Interplay and Scale. In: Lafferty, William M. and Narodslawsky, Michael (eds.): Regional Sustainable Development in Europe. The Challenge of Multi-Level Cooperative Governance. ProSus, Oslo, 201-230.
• Muller, E., Guilloy-Froget, H., Barsoum, N. et Brocheton, L. (2002). Populus nigra L. en vallée de Garonne : legs du passé et contraintes du présent. C.R. Biologies 325: 1-11.
• Muller E., and Lambs L. (2004). Variation journalière de la consommation d’eau de deux peupliers I214 et I45/51 en vallée de Garonne. Forêt-Entreprise (in press).
• Richards, K S (2001) Floods, channel dynamics, and riparian ecosystems. In Mosley, M. P. (ed.) Gravel-Bed Rivers V, New Zealand Hydrological Society, Wellington NZ, 465-477
• Richards, K., Brasington, J. and Hughes, F.M.R. (2002) Geomorphic dynamics of floodplains:ecological implications and a potential modelling strategy. Freshwater Biology 47:559-579
• Tabacchi, E., Lambs, L., Guilloy, H., Planty-Tabacchi, A.M., Muller, E. and Decamps, H. Impact of riparian vegetation on hydrological Processes. Hydrological Processes, 14: 2959-2976.
• Tissier, J. , Lambs, L., Peltier, J,-P. and Marigo G. (2004) Relationships between hydraulic traits and habitat preference for six Acer species occurring in the French Alps, Annals of Forest Science 61, 81-86
• Winfield, M and Hughes, F.M.R. (2002) Variations in the genetic, morphometric and growth characteristics of Populus nigra ssp. betulifolia clones: implications for river restoration in the U.K. Wetlands 22(1):33-48
• Xiong, S., Johansson, M.E., Hughes, F.M.R., Hayes, A., Richards, K.S. and Nilsson, C. (2003) Interactive effects of soil moisture, vegetation canopy, plant litter and seed addition on plant diversity in a wetland community. Journal of Ecology, 91, 976-986

Publications arising from the FLOBAR1 project:

• Adams, W.M. and Perrow, M. (1999) Scientific and Institutional constraints on the restoration of European floodplainsí, in Marriott, S.B. and Alexander, J. (eds.) Floodplains: inter-disciplinary approaches, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 163, 89-97
• Adams, W.M., Perrow, M.R. and Carpenter, A. (2004) Conservatives and champions: river managers and the river restoration discourse in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A, 36(11), 1929 – 1942
• Barsoum, N and Hughes, F.M.R. (1998) The response of vegetative and non-vegetative propagules of Populus nigra var betulifolia to simulated water-table management in different sedimentsí, in Wheatear, W.H., Kirby, C., Harding, R. and Gilvear, D (eds.) Hydrology in a changing environment , Chichester, Wiley, 397-412.
• Girel, J. and Manneville, O. (1998) Present species richness of plant communities in Alpine stream corridors in relation to historical river management. Biological Conservation, 85, 21-33.
• Hayes, A. (in preparation) measurement of soil water potential using a simplified design of tensiometer. (Technical note to be submitted to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms).
• Hughes, F.M.R., Barsoum, N. Richards, K.S., Winfield,M. and Hayes,A. (2000) The response of male and female black poplar (Populus nigra L.subsp. betulifolia (Pursh) W.Wettst.) cuttings to different water table depths and sediment types: implications for flow management and river corridor biodiversity. Hydrological Processes, 14: 3075-3098, Special Issue, edited by Gurnell, A.M. Gregory, S.V. and Hupp, C.R.
• Hughes, F.M.R.; Adams, W.M.; Muller, E. ; Nilsson, C. ; Richards, K.S.R. ; Barsoum, N. ; Decamps, H.; Foussadier, R.; Girel, J. ; Guilloy, H. ; Hayes, A. ; Johansson, M.; Lambs, L ; Pautou, G .; Peiry, J-L. ; Perrow,M. ; Vautier, F.; Winfield, M. (2001) The importance of different scale processes for the restoration of floodplain woodlands. Regulated Rivers:Research and Management. 17:325-345
• Johansson, M.E., Ekblad, A., Persson, J., Larsson, M., Mellqvist, E., Nasholm, T. and Nilsson,C (in preparation) Plant species distribution on riverbanks in relation to mycorrhizal distribution and functioning.
• Johansson, M.E. and Nilsson, C. (in preparation) Performance of two riparian pioneer tree species along a riverbank elevation gradient.
• Lambs. L. (1999) Correlation of counductivity and stable isotope 18o for the assessment of water origin in river systems. Chemical Geology (in press).
• Muller, E. (1997) Mapping riparian vegetation along rivers: Old concepts and new methods. Aquatic Botany, 58:411-437.
• Pautou, G. and Girel, J. (in press) The floodplain forests of the French Upper Rhone Valley, in Floodplain Forests in Europe-current state and perspectives (eds. E. Klimo and H. Hager) Research Report of the European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland.
• Tabacchi, E., Lambs, L., Guilloy, H., Planty-Tabacchi, A.M., Muller, E. and Decamps, H. (2000) Impact of riparian vegetation on hydrological Processes. Hydrological Processes, 14: 2959-2976.
• Vautier, F. and Peiry, J-L (in press) Sediment budget and geomorphological changes along an alpine river for the 20th century: the example of the Isère River, French Alps. Geomorphology.