Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water-Powered Mills

By R. Walter, D. Merritts. Science, 2008

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A STREAM EVOLUTION MODEL INTEGRATING HABITAT AND ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS (2014, background): “Walter and Merrits (2008) concluded that ‘The current condition of single gravel-bedded channels with high, finegrained banks and relatively dry valley-flat surfaces disconnected from groundwater is in stark contrast to the pre-settlement condition of swampy meadows (shrub-scrub) and shallow…”
Linking biotopes to invertebrates in rivers: Biological traits, taxonomic composition and diversity (2012, background): “A combination of paleo-limnology and historical data (Andersen et al., 2004; Walter and Merritts, 2008), as well as search for (near) natural lowland rivers within Europe may represent our best hope, as applied to macrophytes by Danish scientists (Baattrup-Pedersen et al., 2008).”
Historical Impacts on River Fauna, Shifting Baselines, and Challenges for Restoration (2009, background): “Weirs were built to store water and to power water mills to grind grain crops (Walter and Merrits 2008).”
The River Discontinuum: Applying Beaver Modifications to Baseline Conditions for Restoration of Forested Headwaters (2010, background): “Our understanding of the predisturbance system, however, is framed by recent human alterations (e.g., Walter and Merritts 2008).”
The historical reference in restoration ecology: Re-defining a cornerstone concept (2014, background): “The work of Walter and Merritts (2008), however, indicates that these floodplains were actually fill terraces developed by aggradation, i.e. deposition of sediments, due to damming of thousands of mildams during the 17th–19th-centuries.”
From the myth of a lost paradise to targeted river restoration: forget natural references and focus on human benefits (2009, background): “How can natural systems, such as those observed in California (Mount, 1995; Florsheim and Mount, 2002) or mid Atlantic streams (Walter and Merritts, 2008), which have been subjected to a range of cumulative impacts over centuries, recover to their original form?”
The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world (2010, background): “It is particularly worrying that we have already lost track of the degree to which humans have changed the environment [Blackbourn, 2006; Walter and Merritts, 2008] and to what extent these changes are already reflected in the water cycle.”