During the last decades, river floods accounted for enormous damages especially in highly developed and/or densely populated regions worldwide. Moreover, due to anthropogenic alterations of hydrology and river morphology (climate change, land use changes in the catchment, channelling and...

The impact of climate-induced discharge change on fish habitats, based on 1951–2008 time series, was investigated within the crystalline catchment of the Grosse Mühl River in Northern Austria. A significant trend change of air temperature, based on Mann–Whitney statistical testing, was...