MorphSed, a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry, is analysing the morphosedimentary dynamics of a representative human-stressed
fluvial system (suffering major local alterations due to gravel mining), their
drivers and their impacts on the river’s ecological integrity.The multi-event dataset obtained will
enable the first links to be established between physical and ecological
processes at scales integrated from the micro-habitat to the reach scale. These
links will be a key goal for progress towards the system-scale understanding of
the interactions between river disturbance and ecological responses, and
provide the basis for an integrated methodology that can be used to aid
prediction, management and restoration of human stressed fluvial systems.
