Lowland Catchment Research (LOCAR)

Informations

Total budget: 4,031,839 EUR
Start date: 5/1/2002
URL: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/
Fundings: -
End date: 11/14/2007

Description

The Lowland Catchment Research programme (LOCAR) supported the detailed, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research needed to manage permeable lowland catchments, now and in the future. Vale of the White Horse The programme investigated how water enters, is stored within, and is discharged from rivers in three groundwater-dominated catchments, the Frome/Piddle in Dorset, the Pang/Lambourn in Berkshire and the Tern in Shropshire. Researchers also investigated how fine sediments and chemicals (including fertiliser residues) move, and their effects on in-stream, riparian and wetland habitats within these catchments.

Projects

Name	Role	Start	End	Amount
Utilisation of off-river habitats by lowland river fishes: influences of flow regime and implications for river management.	Grant	-	-	-
Fine sediment and nutrient dynamics of lowland permeable streams: establishing the significance of biotic processes for sediment modification.	Grant	-	-	-
The influence of woodlands on recharge in the Pang catchment.	Grant	-	-	-

Funding agencies

Name	Role	Start	End	Amount
Natural Environment Research Council	Lead Funder	-	-	-

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