River Restoration Recovers Biodiversity While Reducing Flood Risk (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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River Restoration Recovers Biodiversity While Reducing Flood Risk (2 of 4)

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Example of vegetation succession (floodplain forest) and side channel recreation at Ewijk. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 08 Nov. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.W. Straatsma at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Biodiversity recovery following delta-wide measures for flood risk reduction."

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[Credit: Menno Straatsma]

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