Sentence examples for restored streams from inspiring English sources

However, increased flash flood risks created by climate change are reigniting controversies regarding the vulnerability of restored streams to flooding.

Because heavy machinery is used to regrade and reconfigure restored channels, restored streams had less canopy cover than either forested or urban streams.

For every measured reach- and patch-scale attribute, we found that restored streams were indistinguishable from their degraded urban stream counterparts.

To be successful at mitigating urban impacts, the habitat structure and biological communities found in restored streams should be more similar to forested reference sites than to their urban degraded counterparts.

Because the riparian trees are removed during the first stage of natural channel design projects, the restored streams in this study had significantly less canopy cover and higher summer temperatures than the urban and forested streams with which they were compared.

We anticipated that urban streams would have enhanced rates of ecosystem metabolism and nitrate uptake relative to forested streams due to the increases in nutrient loads and temperature associated with urbanization, and we predicted that restored streams would have further enhanced rates for these ecosystem functions by virtue of their increased habitat heterogeneity and water residence times.

Designing the size and type of morphologic features constructed in restoration projects is somewhat flexible, and the use of modeling to simulate stream groundwater interactions may help to enhance the hydrologic link with a stream and the subsurface environment in restored stream reaches.

By reshaping the channel and reconnecting the surface waters with their riparian zone, practitioners intend to enhance the natural nutrient retention capacity of the restored stream ecosystem.

Muehlbauer, JD; Doyle, MW; Bernhardt, ES, Macroinvertebrate community responses to a dewatering disturbance gradient in a restored stream, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 15 no.

During the summer, restored stream reaches had substantially higher rates of nitrate uptake than unrestored or forested stream reaches; however, we found that variation in stream temperature and canopy cover explained 80% of the variation across streams in nitrate uptake.

Restored stream / Jared Green.