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http://dx.doi.org/10.17663/JWR.2019.21.s-1.1

Flow Regime Boundary for Restoring River Ecosystems: A Case of the Han River Basin  

Kang, Seongkyu (Department of Land, Water and Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology)
Lee, Dong-Ryul (Department of Land, Water and Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology)
Choi, Sijung (Department of Land, Water and Environment Research, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology)
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Journal of Wetlands Research / v.21, no.spc, 2019 , pp. 1-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
River works for water utilization have substantially altered the natural flow regime, and it has resulted in deformation of healthy river ecosystems. In Korea, river restoration projects have conducted actively since 1990's. Major purposes of the river restoration are the rehabilitation of modified river channel, improvement of water quality, and creation of aquatic habitats as well as recreational spaces using natural material for river work. However, there have been little interests about the restoration of flow regime which influences to most aspects of river ecosystems. The restoration of natural flow regime has received much attention in preservation of aquatic ecosystems. It should be needed to explore the relationship between flow regime and river ecosystems, and the restoring flow regime is essential. This paper introduce the concept of environmental flow through the interrelation between flow regime and river ecosystem. It provides rolls of flow regime and addresses the method of establishing target flow regime using the RVA(Range of Variability Approach) that suggested by Richter et al.(1997) through analysis of altered flow pattern case of Han river basin.
Keywords
river ecosystem; river restoration; flow regime; environmental flow; RVA;
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