Damming effect on habitat quality of riparian corridor

Riparian corridor, a vital ecotonian ecosystem is under stress due to flow reduction and inconsistency of flow in Lower Tangon river basin across the neo tectonically active Barind tract of India and Bangladesh. But it is ill defined and its habitat quality is rarely assessed insipite of its immense socio-ecological importance. The present work intends to delineate the riparian corridor and quality assessment of the riparian habitat in reference to the hydrological alteration (HA) triggered by anthropogenic activities, mainly damming in 1989. The present work applied multi-parametric (altitude, topographic roughness, water body, forest patches) approach for delineating the riparian corridor instead of existing uni-criterion approaches for the same. Quality assessment of the habitat is done using nine surface, ecological, hydrological…