Author(s): Jürgen Stamm, Nadine Müller, Sarah-Christin Mietz
Linked Author(s): Sarah-christin Mietz
Keywords: Morphodynamics, physical model, riverbed structure, sediment transport, vegetated channel
Abstract: Most of the rivers in Germany and the EU are still missing the good ecological status (BMU, 2010). Severe reasons are the deviancies in the hydro-morphological status. Generally, this could be improved by the use of vegetation along the river, knowing that it may also affect the flood water table. Vegetation not only has fundamental ecological functions in the fluvial environment, but it also affects the flow pattern, bed-shear stress and hence local sediment deposition, which links back to habitat characteristics. Therefore, a joint research project of university institutes with professional focusing on hydraulic engineering, morphology and hydrobiology, together with administration and engineering consultants in the field of environmental planning, is established with the aim to improve the ecological and flood risk status with simultaneous increase in the level of acceptance by the public when flood risk management is systematically combined with environmental protection goals. The objective of this part of the joint-project is to investigate river bed structures due to the influence of riparian vegetation. This paper reviews the current state and includes investigation of parameters in the morphological scale experiments
Year: 2017