Después de muchos meses de trabajo, dos alumnos de la Universidad de Barcelona y un estudiante de la escuela superior ENGEES de Estrasburgo han completado diferentes proyectos de investigación sobre ríos temporales en el marco de TRivers. La estudiante de Ciencias Ambientales de la UB Carla Van Esso, dedicó...
The Life + TRIVERS team just published a paper in Science of the Total Environment that tries to use two alternative methods for gathering information on the regime of temporary streams: interviews made to the neighbors of the river reach, and the inspection of aerial photographs. The combination of the...
On 27 and 28 January, the second stakeholder meeting of the LIFE+ TRivers project took place at the headquarters of the Segura Water Agency, in Murcia. During the first day, a field trip to the Chícamo temporary river was organized. During the second day, the latest TRivers results,...
Many temporary streams in the Mediterranean are totally dry due the presence of reservoirs in the basin. Changing the management options may allow to reduce the negative effects with the use of controlled floods, which could activate sediment transport or facilitate the colonization of certain...
Heavy rains and floods that happened on the east of the Iberian Peninsula nearly a month ago are the protagonists of the new sampling campaign that began last week. The effects of floods can be seen clearly in the rivers of Catalonia that we have...
The strong rains from these last days has increased in a very short time the water discharge of those temporary streams and rivers that were previously dry or with disconnected pools. Within the aquatic states, these watercourses would be in a Hyperrheic state, where drift of bedload...
During the last 6 months we have been visiting our study sites regularly (every six weeks) in order to capture the different hydrological conditions and aquatic states of streams from spring to end of summer, and sample the aquatic communities living therein. We observed that many...
Thank you all!!!! Our call to send us pictures of temporary rivers, in order to point out the importance of temporary rivers, has been a success. We have received a total of 36 tweets from several countries showing a large variety of temporary rivers around...