Ecological Engineering

Plant trait data for 15 native Southern California plants recommended for use in stormwater bioretention

Paper data

This contains the data that were analyzed for this research study. Ecological and vegetation data were analysed under this study.

Research data for ‘Degradation of multi-thread gravel-bed rivers in medium-high mountain settings: quantitave analysis and possible solutions’, authors: Václav Škarpich, Tereza Macurová, Tomáš Galia, Stanislav Ruman, Jan Hradecký Table S1 contains data about calculated volumes of eroded/aggraded material of individual segments in the studied river reach of the Morávka River channel in the monitored one-year periods from 2006 to 2015. These data were used for sediment deficit calculation in the Morávka R. Table S2 contains data about altitude of the lowest bed level points which were used to analysis of significant bed level changes between 9.687 – 10.536 r. km of the Morávka River channel in individual years 2006-2015. Table S3 contains data of modelled bedload transport and transport stage during the cumulative frequencies of occurred discharges for the studied cross sections (MOR1-3) over 9.73 r. km of the Morávka River channel for the scenario of the state with successive vegetation cover on gravel bars. Table S4 contains data of modelled bedload transport and transport stage during the cumulative frequencies of occurred discharges for the studied cross sections (MOR1-3) over 9.73 r. km of the Morávka River channel for the hypothetical scenario of the floodplain without successive vegetation cover, which reflected the situation after significant flood events. Table S5 contains a 25-year (1991–2016) long series of mean daily discharges obtained from the Vyšní Lhoty gauging station of the Morávka River (data provided by Povodí Odry State Enterprise). Table S6 contains an annual maximum discharge in the years 1954–2015 of the Morávka R. at the Vyšní Lhoty gauging station

Abundance, diversity, habitat use and feeding activity of pelagic and cryptobenthic fish on seawalls and eco-engineered concrete tiles.

Dataset containing physico-chemical and isotope analyses for this manuscript.

Raw plant data on survival, dry weight, and P content of shoots.

The root data processing software and root raw data is provided herein.

Increased predation risk or avoidance of wildlife underpasses by small mammals have been highlighted. To overcome this problem and to provide these species with an opportunity to safely cross road-crossing structures, we previously designed an Anti-Predation Tube (APT). The features (shape and size) of this device have been tested under laboratory conditions and its use by captive European hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) has been validated. In this study, we investigate both the enrichment and anti-predation functions of the APT for hamsters in an actual underpass. To do so, we built two small enclosures of 6 m2 at both extremities of an underpass and cross-manipulated the presence of the APT and a predator of hamsters, the European ferret. Our results show that the APT does not act as an enrichment, as it did not increase the crossing frequency of hamsters in the absence of the predator. However, it acts as an anti-predation device, since, in the presence of the ferret, male hamsters crossed more than 10 times as much when the APT was present inside the underpass than when it was not. We therefore recommend implementing the APT as a conservation measure to upgrade wildlife underpasses while conducting surveys to investigate how the presence of the APT influences the crossing of other small mammals and wildlife.

We aimed to determine how fast sediment strength develops in marshes restored or created for nature-based flood defense. Therefore, this study investigated how 1) sediment type, 2) tidal drainage depth and duration, and 3) pioneer vegetation species drive the development rate of sediment strength. A controlled experiment was set up with pots filled with two sediment types, which were either left bare or planted with Spartina anglica or Scirpus maritimus, two dominant salt marsh pioneers in NW Europe. All treatments were subjected to four different tidal regimes with different tidal drainage depth and duration. After the growing season of 2021 (October) and before and after the growing season of 2022 (April and October, respectively), sediment strength proxies (i.e., compaction, penetration resistance, bulk density, and shear strength) and vegetation variables (i.e., above- and belowground biomass) were measured in five pots per treatment. This dataset contains all data of these variables at the three moments in time.