Responses in fish and macroinvertebrates to channelization and restoration in two Arctic rivers

• Main Author: Lium, Andreas
• Other Authors: Colman, Jonathan Edward
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2018
• Subjects: Restoration; Restaurering; Økologi; Ecology; Limnology; Limnologi; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400; Arctic; Norway; Elva; Budalselva; Salangselva; Kvernmoelva; Storøra; Troms
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2569363

The two rivers Salangselva and Kvernmoelva in Troms county, were both channelized and erosion secured during the 1980s. This stimulated agricultural activity in adjacent properties in the following years. In parallel, a decline in fish stocks, number and diversity of birds, and the total area with i...