Research
Projects
2024 - 2028 | DANSER - DANube SEdiment Restoration: towards the deployment and upscaling of sustainable management of the sediments across the Danube catchment basin (PI).
Funded by the European Commission
2024 - 2026 | FlaMoVie - Flashflood Monitoring Vienna (PI)
Funded by the City of Vienna (Austria)
2024 - 2027 | MASC - Microplastics as Anthropocene markers and proxies for sediment connectivity in fluvial systems (Co-PI, PhD supervisor)
Funded by Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Vienna
2019 - 2024 | i-CONN - Interdisciplinary connectivity: Understanding and managing complex systems using connectivity science (ESR on "Hotspots and hot moments: the role of connectivity and resilience science for managing human-impacted catchment systems" (PI/ESR lead/supervisor).
Funded by the European Commission
2018 - 2019 | CONWATER - Application of the connectivity concept in water erosion reseach for the purposes of integrated catchment protection (Scientific & Technological Cooperation with Slovakia)
Funded by the OEAD
2017 - 2019 | Konzept zur Reduktion von Feinsediment-Einträgen in die Fugnitz ("FugnitzSED", sub-contract within INTERREG project "Dyje/Thaya 2020")
Funded by the Thayatal National Park and the European Union
Publications
Pöppl, R.E., Perez, J., Fergg, H., Morche, D. Introducing indices to assess the effects of in-stream large wood on water and sediment connectivity in small streams. Geomorphology 444, 108936
Korenová, S., Sulc Michalková, M., Mácka, Z., Poeppl, R., Donoval, J. Linking sediment connectivity with sediment transport risk assessment in small forested catchments in the Czech Republic. River Research and Applications, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.429
Pavlek, K., Gasparovic, M., Pöppl, R.E. Object-based mapping of natural and human-induced river corridor changes (Orljava River, Croatia) (River Research and Applications, doi.org/10.1002/rra.4369
Abatti, B.H., Michel, J.P., Pöppl, R.E., Paul, L.R., Fagundes Refatti, M., Zanandrea, F. The Influence of Large Wood on Sediment Routing and Flow Characteristics: A Case Study in a Low-order Stream in the Southern Brazilian Plateau. (Geomorphology, doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109398)
Mácka, Z., Holis, D., Korenová, S., Perez, J., Sulc Michalková, M., Pöppl, R.E. Controls on tributary-trunk sediment connectivity in forested high-gradient streams along an inter-dam reach of the Dyje River (Czechia-Austria). Submitted to Geomorphology
Pöppl, R.E., Parsons, A., Keesstra, S. (ed.). Connectivity in Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press (in press)
Pöppl, R.E., Parsons, A., Keesstra, S. Connectivity in Geomorphology. In. Pöppl, R.E., Parsons, A., Keesstra, S.(ed.): Connectivity in Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press (in press)
Parsons, A., Pöppl, R.E., Keesstra, S. Connectivity concepts. In. Pöppl, R.E., Parsons, A., Keesstra, S.(ed.): Connectivity in Geomorphology. Cambridge University Press (in press)
2023
Pöppl, R.E., Polvi-Sjöberg, L., Turnbull, L. (Dis)connectivity in hydro-geomorphic systems - emerging concepts and their applications. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 48 (6), 1089-1094
Boothroyd, R.J., Williams, R.D., Hoey T.B., MacDonell, C., Tolentino, P.L., Quick, L., Guardian, E.L., Reyes, J.C., Sabillo, C.J., Perez, J.E., David, C.P. National-scale geodatabase of catchment characteristics in the Philippines for river management applications. Plos one. 2023 Mar 8;18(3):e0281933.
Perez, J., Pöppl, R., Turnbull-Lloyd, L., Wainwright, J., Tiwari, S. (2023). Identifying hot spots and hot moments of fine sediment connectivity on agricultural hillslopes of the Fugnitz catchment (Thayatal National Park region) using sediment transport modeling and network analysis. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, Vienna, Austria, p. 206-212.
2022
Tolentino, P. L. M., Perez, J. E. G., Guardian, E. L., Boothroyd, R. J., Hoey, T. B., Williams, R. D., ... & David, C. P. C. River Styles and stream power analysis reveal the diversity of fluvial morphology in a Philippine tropical catchment. Geoscience Letters, 9(1), 6.
2021
Brierley, G.J., Tunnicliffe, J., Bizzi, S., Lee, F., Perry, G., Pöppl, R.E., Fryirs, K.A. Quantifying Sediment (Dis)Connectivity in the Modeling of River Systems. Treatise on Geomorphology Volume 14; Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
Voutsa, V., Battaglia, D., Bracken, L., Brovelli, A., Costescu, J., Munoz, M.D., Fath, B.D., Funk, A., Guirro, M-. Hein, T., Kerschner, C., Kimmich, C., Lima, V., Messé, A., Parsons, A.J., Perez, J., Pöppl, R.E., Prell, C., Recinos, S., Shi, Y., Tiwari, S., Turnbull, La., Wainwright, J., Waxenecker, H., Hütt, M.-T. Two classes of functional connectivity in dynamical processes in networks. Interface 18: 20210486
Pichler-Scheder, C., Pöppl, R., Humer, L., Haselberger, S., Dilly, L., David, J., Höfler, S., Gumpinger, C. Untersuchung der gewässerökologischen Auswirkungen von Feinsedimenteinträgen auf die Makrozoobenthosgemeinschaften des Gewässernetzes im Einzugsgebiet des Nationalparks Thayatal. Naturkundliche Mitteilungen aus den Landessammlungen Niederösterreich 31: 123-138
2020
Pöppl, R.E., Fryirs, K.A., Tunnicliffe, J., Brierley, G.J. Managing sediment (dis)connectivity in fluvial systems. Science of the Total Environment 736, 139627
Luetzenburg, G., Bittner, M., Calsamiglia, A., Estrany, J., Pöppl, R. Climate and land use change effects on soil erosion in two small agricultural catchment systems: Fugnitz - Austria, Can Revull - Spain. Science of the Total Environment 704, 135389
2019
Pöppl, R., Dilly, L., Haselberger, S., Renschler, C., Baartman, J. Combining soil erosion modelling with connectivity analyses to assess lateral fine sediment input into agricultural streams. Water 11(9), 1793
Pöppl, R.E., Coulthard, T., Keesstra, S.D., Keiler, M., J. Modeling the impact of dam removal on channel evolution and sediment delivery in a multiple dam setting. International Journal of Sediment Research 34(6), 537-549
Pöppl, R., Aydin, E. Identification of study sites for placement of sediment traps in vegetated buffer strips. Acta Horticulturae et Regiotecturae 2, 71-74
2018
Pöppl, R.E., Parsons, A. The geomorphic cell: a basis for studying connectivity. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4300
Science of the Total Environment
Wohl, E., Brierley, G., Cadol, D., Coulthard, T., Covino, T., Fryirs, K., Grant, G., Hilton, R., Lane, S., Magilligan, F., Meitzen, K., Passalacqua, P., Pöppl, R., Rathburn, S., Sklar, L. Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems. Earth Surface Processes and Landformsdoi:10.1002/esp.4434
Turnbull-Lloyd, L., Parsons, A., Kininmonth, S., Pöppl, R.E., Huett, M., Keesstra, S.D., Tockner, K., Ioannides, A., Masselink, R. Connectivity and complex systems: learning from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Applied Network Science 3:11.
2017
Pöppl, R.E., Keesstra, S.D., Maroulis, J. A conceptual connectivity framework for understanding geomorphic change in human-impacted fluvial systems. Geomorphology 277: 237-250.
2015
Pöppl, R.E., Keesstra, S.D., Hein, T. The geomorphic legacy of small dams - An Austrian study. Anthropocene 10: 43-55. doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2015.09.003
2012
Pöppl, R.E., Keiler, M., Elverfeldt, K.v., Zweimueller, I., Glade, T. The influence of riparian vegetation cover on diffuse lateral connectivity and biogeomorphic processes in a medium-sized agricultural catchment, Austria. Geografiska Annaler, Series A 94: 511-529. doi:DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2012.00476.x