Uncertainties explicitly, the use of suspended sediment targets alone does not address regarding sediment impacts have also resulted from a large amount of the main cause of ecological degradation in chalk streams, i.e., the variability and uncertainty in published data detailing the impacts of deposition and accumulation of fine sediment within the gravel bed elevated fine sediment concentrations. [...] Mechanism B – Transport of fine sediment in the water column as gravel framework, its infiltration to the hyporheic zone and the forma- suspended load or bedload tion of the layer that reduces permeability of the gravel bed (Brunke and The load of fine sediment within a system is determined by the Gonser, 1997; Brunke, 1999; Veličković, 2005; Wharton et al., 2017). [...] The mode of transport of draulic gradient of the seepage flow, grainsize distribution and particle sediment moving through the water column can include bedload, sus- shape of the infiltrating fine sediment and gravel bed substrate, quantity pended load or a combination of both, depending on the relationship of sediment-associated organic material and the presence of ecosystem between sediment size. [...] For downstream and the rate of deposition is dependent on the flow tur- example, the occurrence of biofilms and extracellular polymeric sub- bulence conditions, the subsequent transport capacity within the chalk stances (EPS) within the gravel framework can reduce the quantity and stream and the characteristics of the suspended particles (Brunke, 1999; infiltration depth of deposited sediment via. [...] Ecosystem engineers can influence the sediment transport systems of Future approaches to fine sediment targets and management need to rivers in four ways: reflect the processes that cause this, hence the proposition of a sediment budget approach for chalk streams that considers the controlling 1) Modifying the supply of sediment to the riverbed, Mechanisms A and mechanisms for gravel bed colmation.
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