The beautiful and the dammed: defining multi-stressor disturbance regimes in an Atlantic river floodplain wetland

Natural hydrological fluctuations within river floodplains generate habitat diversity through variable connections between habitat patches and the main river channel. Human modification of floodplains can alter the magnitude and frequency of large floods and associated sediment movement by interrupting these floodplain connections. The lower Wolastoq | Saint John River and its associated floodplain wetlands are experiencing anthropogenic disturbances arising from climate change, increased urbanization in the watershed, changing upstream agricultural landscape practices, and, most notably, major road and dam construction. By comparing digitized aerial images, we identified key periods of change in wetland extent throughout an ecologically significant component of the floodplain, the Grand Lake Meadows and Portobello Creek wetland complex, with significant erosion evident in coves and backwater areas across the landscape following dam construction and significant accretion around the Jems..., See paper for detailed description., Dataset associated with: 
Rideout, N.K., Compson, Z.G., Monk, W.A., Bruce, M.R. and Baird, D.J. (2021). The beautiful and the dammed: Defining multi-stressor disturbance regimes in an Atlantic river floodplain. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.553094,