Land cover in floodplains of the Dutch Rhine under various management strategies

This dataset contains GIS-based land cover classifications representing various floodplain-river management strategies for the Dutch Rhine branches, as described in Kok et al. (2025), Trade-offs in ecosystem services under various river management strategies of the Rhine Branches, Ecosystem Services. The maps were generated using the HABITAT model, incorporating stage-discharge relationships for each strategy, elevation data, and discharge probabilities to derive new inundation durations. These durations were linked to potential ecotope development and combined with GIS-based assumptions on vegetation management to produce simplified land cover outputs.