Articles | Volume 26, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4109-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4109-2022
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08 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 08 Aug 2022

Macroinvertebrate habitat requirements in rivers: overestimation of environmental flow calculations in incised rivers

Renata Kędzior, Małgorzata Kłonowska-Olejnik, Elżbieta Dumnicka, Agnieszka Woś, Maciej Wyrębek, Leszek Książek, Jerzy Grela, Paweł Madej, and Tomasz Skalski

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The river incision significantly increased the values of e-flow calculations in relation to redeposited channels. The area of optimal habitat for macroinvertebrates decreased with the bed incision intensity. In highly incised rivers, the environmental flow values are close to the mean annual flow, suggesting that a high volume of water is needed to obtain good macroinvertebrate conditions. As a consequence, river downcutting processes and impoverishment of optimal habitats will proceed.