Work Package 6 of REFORM focuses on monitoring protocols, survey methods, assessment procedures, guidelines and other tools for characterising the consequences of physical degradation and restoration, and for planning and designing successful river restoration and mitigation measures and programmes. Deliverable 6.2 of Work Package 6 is the final report on methods, models and tools to assess the hydromorphology of rivers. This report summarises the outputs of Tasks 6.1 (Selection of indicators for cost-effective monitoring and development of monitoring protocols to assess river degradation and restoration), 6.2 (Improve existing methods to survey and assess the hydromorphology of river ecosystems), and 6.3 (Identification and selection of existing hydromorphological and ecological models and tools suitable to plan and evaluate river restoration).

The deliverable is structured in five parts. Part 1 provides an overall framework for hydromorphological assessment. Part 2 (this volume) includes thematic annexes on protocols for monitoring indicators and models. Part 3 is a detailed guidebook for the application of the Morphological Quality Index (MQI). Part 4 describes the Geomorphic Units survey and classification System. Part 5 includes a series of applications to some case studies of some of the tools and methods reported in the previous parts.

Summary of Deliverable 6.2 Part 2

Part 2 of Deliverable 6.2 provides detailed information on some specific aspect outlined in Part 1.

In Annex A, a series of indicators is presented for the different stages of hydrological characterization, assessment of current status (alteration) and design (rehabilitation measures), including groundwater – surface water indicators.

Annex B reviews monitoring indicators, evaluation tools, and analyses which are suitable for monitoring morphological conditions.

Annex C reports monitoring protocols for riparian vegetation.

In Annex D, a summary of models used in hydromorphology is reported.