Objective: restoring riparian plants to improve the ecological status of rivers

Recovering the vegetation that grows in riverbanks helps improving the ecological status of the water ecosystem, according to an article published in the journal Water Research, in which the researcher Cayetano Gutiérrez Cánovas, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB took part. The new study, led by Professor Christian Feld (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), states how to bring back the environmental health to damaged rivers by restoring their riverbank vegetation as the essential element of the fluvial territory.

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