Revitalizing small streams - A practical guide for community action (03/2025)

Key messages:

1. Training material for the monitoring of small streams by citizen scientists according to FLOW project protocols is available in English language and was tested in Ghent (BE).
2. The ecological status of small streams is assessed before and after the implementation of citizen science (CS) restoration measures based on FLOW monitoring protocols for hydromorphology and benthic invertebrates.
   
   
3. A process description helps volunteers to check local conditions, to develop agreements between stakeholders and to implement site- and group specific measures.
   
   
4. We provide fact sheets on three different CS stream restoration measures: Installing wood structures, gravel micro-groins and planting alders.
   
   
5. We present approaches to monitor temporal changes in the benthic invertebrate community using the bioindicator EPT ratio.