2004 Volume 10 Pages 7-12
River ecological engineering stands in the interdisciplinary area between hydraulics and ecology/biology. However we have not yet developed this field as the science based technology. Several works have been conducted respectively in ecologists, biologists and hydraulics researchers, but we need to rearrange them and to combine the individual research result in order to take a comprehensive knowledge of river ecosystem.
In this paper, current research topics about riverine vegetation and periphyton in stream are reviewed through the several papers in Advance in River Engineering published by Division of River Engineering, JSCE. And their up-to-date outcomes are summarized for the discussion between ecologists and hydraulics researchers, which can give us the next research target for the further progress of science in river ecological engineering.
