Site Condition Monitoring of river habitats, 2017: LEAFPACS aquatic plant survey

For the River Dee five targets passed (indicators of local distinctiveness, plant community, large woody debris, in-channel structures and siltation) and five targets failed (channel planform, habitat modification, bank vegetation naturalness, riparian zone naturalness and alien species).
For the River Findhorn five targets passed (indicators of local distinctiveness, plant community, channel planform, in-channel structures and siltation), four targets were a borderline pass (habitat modification, bank vegetation naturalness, riparian zone naturalness and large woody debris) and one target failed (alien species).
For the River Laxford eight targets passed (indicators of local distinctiveness, plant community, channel planform, bank vegetation naturalness, riparian zone naturalness, large woody debris, siltation and alien species), one target failed (habitat modification) and one target was a borderline fail (in-channel structures).
For the Lunan Burn three targets passed (indicators of local distinctiveness, plant community and siltation), three targets were a borderline pass (channel planform, bank vegetation naturalness and large woody debris) and four targets failed (habitat modification, riparian zone naturalness, in-channel structures and alien species).
For the River Spey ñ Insh Marshes nine targets passed (indicators of local distinctiveness, bank vegetation naturalness, riparian zone naturalness, in-channel structures, channel planform, habitat modification, large woody debris, siltation and alien species), and one target failed (plant community).
For the River Traligill, all targets for the ten attributes were met and there was very little change in the condition of the river since the first monitoring cycle in 2003.