Skjern River Valley, Northern Europe’s most expensive wetland restoration project: benefits to breeding waterbirds
After circa 35 years of drainage and intensive arable tillage, the lower Skjern River, Den-mark was re-engineered to its original meanders and flooding regime, creating 22 km2 of lakes, shallow wetlands and seasonally flooded grazed wet grassland costing €38 million. The primary motivation was to re...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.664.1332 http://ornisfennica.org/pdf/latest/414Bregnballe.pdf |