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Non-proportional Repartition Rules Optimize Environmental Flows and Energy Production

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Pierre Razurel, Lorenzo Gorla

In order to meet the growing demand for energy, the development of hydropower leads to an increase of the river exploitation by human activities. Thereby, water management has become a major issue in the energy transition. A better definition of the flow r ...

Springer2016

The signature of randomness in riparian plant root distributions

Paolo Perona, Massimiliano Schwarz, Lorenzo Gorla, Stefania Tron

Known as "the hidden half", plant roots are fundamental contributors to the riparian ecosystem functioning. Roots show an extraordinary architectural complexity that recalls their remarkable ability to adapt to environmental heterogeneity, resources availa ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Transient response of Salix cuttings to changing water level regimes

Alexandre Buttler, Pascal Turberg, Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla, Constant Signarbieux

Sustainable water management requires an understanding of the effects of flow regulation on riparian ecomorphological processes. We investigated the transient response of Salix viminalis by examining the effect of water-level regimes on its above-ground an ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Effects of hydropeaking waves offsets on growth performances of juvenile Salix species

Alexandre Buttler, Pascal Turberg, Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla, Constant Signarbieux

Hydropower production and other human activities change the natural flow regime of rivers (e.g., hydropeaking effects), in turn, impacting the riparian environment. Here we present an experiment conceived to investigate the response of forced offsets in wa ...

Elsevier2015

Experimental response of Salix cuttings to different flow regimes due to human activities

Alexandre Buttler, Pascal Turberg, Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla, Constant Signarbieux

2014

The riparian environment as a non-traditional water user : experimental quantification and modelling for hydropower management

Lorenzo Gorla

EPFL2014

On quantifying ecologically sustainable flow releases in a diverted river reach

Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla

Water demand for hydropower production has been increasing along with a growing awareness of the importance of preserving riparian ecosystems and their biodiversity. Some Cantons in Switzerland have begun replacing the inadequate concept of Minimum Flow Re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013