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Restoring Floodplain Forests in Europe

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Floodplain forests are linear forest systems, occupying the lower areas of river catchments. Their boundaries correspond with the areas disturbed by river flooding and they generally have shallow water tables. The ecology of floodplain forests is closely linked to the dynamic physical processes associated with flooding. The regeneration of floodplain forest species is particularly dependent on periodic floods and sediment deposition. River engineering practices and wholesale clearance of natural floodplain forests for agriculture or forestry have made them very rare in Europe, with about 10 % of the original amount remaining, mostly in the larger river systems of Eastern Europe. There are new opportunities for restoration of floodplain forests provided by some areas of European legislation such as the European Habitats Directive, Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive and by a new interest in soft engineering approaches to flood management. However, many constraints remain, often related to competing economic incentives for the use of floodplain land.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Professor Herbert Hager for sending us a very timely copy of the recently published and excellent book on European Floodplain Forests edited by Professor Emil Klimo and himself among others and referenced below.

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  1. Animal & Environment Research Group, Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK

    Francine M. R. Hughes

  2. E.T.S. Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Marta González del Tánago

  3. Biological Patterns & Predictions Section, NERC-Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

    J. Owen Mountford

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    John Stanturf

  2. , Danish Ctr Forest, Landscape Planning, University of Copenhagen, Vedelsgade 6, Vejle, 7100, Denmark

    Palle Madsen

  3. Center for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Queensland University, Brisbane, 4072, Queensland, Australia

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Hughes, F.M.R., del Tánago, M.G., Mountford, J.O. (2012). Restoring Floodplain Forests in Europe. In: Stanturf, J., Madsen, P., Lamb, D. (eds) A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. World Forests, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5338-9_15

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