Monitoring forest buffers along water courses in Wallonia ; Le suivi des bandes riveraines des cours d’eau de Wallonie

International audience ; Riparian forest buffers are environments that attract much ecological, economic and social interest. For the purposes of sustainable, multi-functional management, it is very important to have an initial assessment and track changes in the situation. The article presents a monitoring system developed for the 24 000 kilometres of water courses that make up the Wallonia watershed. The system is based on a hierarchical sampling plan consisting of 1 064 sample units. Various items of information about each location were collected on practically linear plots (50 metres long... Mehr ...