2nd Life+ Trivers meeting: TREHS, a new tool for temporary river management

After the first meeting held in Valencia last year a second meeting for all stakeholders interested in the results of TRIVERS will be held next January 28th, 2016 at the Central office of the Segura River Basin District (C/Mahonesas, 2. Murcia, Spain). The main objective of this meeting is...

Gaià river reaches the Mediterranean see for the first time after 30 years

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...

Autumn campaign: behind the traces of floods

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...

Autumn floods: Hyperrheic state

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...

From flowing to dry conditions: first results on the aquatic states

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...

New campaign to collect samples: life after the dry season

How have the heat and showers of last months affected our rivers? Are they still dry or have they regained their streamflow? What biological communities have resisted the drought and which ones have disappeared? These are some of the questions posed by the researchers of...

Visiting the temporary rivers of the Júcar River Basin

On January 26, the TRivers team went for an exploratory trip to the temporary rivers of the Júcar River Basin, mainly located in the region of Valencia. The idea was to identify case studies for this basin, including both the rivers that are temporary in...

Summary of the 1st stakeholders meeting in Valencia

Press release Members of the project and stakehlders during the meeting. Picture: J.Latron.   On Tuesday 27 January, the first stakeholder meeting of the LIFE Trivers project took place at the headquarters of the Júcar Water Agency, in Valencia. The meeting gathered stakeholders and experts involved in temporary river...

First stakeholder meeting of the TRivers project

Presentation of TREHS: a new tool for the management of temporary rivers Download the programme (Spanish) On 27th January 2015 will take place the first stakeholders meeting at the Júcar River Basin authority central office (Valencia, Spain), organized by the LIFE+ TRivers project team. This meeting aims to seek views of stakeholders...