CROSSLINK makes available multiple bespoke field protocols for quantifying variables in the CROSSLINK GBI values portfolio, as well as guidelines for field surveys aiming at evaluating buffer benefits, and for optimization of buffer network design.
Most of these protocols were published together with an article on the benefits of riparian buffers for stream ecosystem integrity, as part of supplementary material |
Many of these protocols were modified from existing protocols, others were substantially generated within the CROSSLINK project
The protocols available at the above link are grouped into six categories:
(1) Evaluating buffer impacts: Guidelines for selecting study sites and sampling design
(2) Environmental data, including:
Further details on the optimization framework and the Bayesian Belief Network Modelling will be made available in upcoming publications!
Additional protocols are available in specific publications
The protocols available at the above link are grouped into six categories:
(1) Evaluating buffer impacts: Guidelines for selecting study sites and sampling design
(2) Environmental data, including:
- Water quality
- Instream habitat assessment
- Riparian habitat assessment (for full details of quantifying riparian integrity, see the main article)
- Stream invertebrates
- Benthic diatoms
- Terrestrial invertebrates
- Microbes
- Trees
- Algal biomass accrual
- Organic and inorganic sediment dynamics
- Organic matter processing
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Stable isotopes
Further details on the optimization framework and the Bayesian Belief Network Modelling will be made available in upcoming publications!
Additional protocols are available in specific publications
- A species trait-based approach for assessing the effects of riparian forest on potential ecological connectivity: link