Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside CommunitiesElsevier, 2010 M08 5 - 448 pages This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are used by human cultures as well as how riparia can be used to sustain environmental quality. In recent years riparian management has been widely implemented as a means of improving fisheries, water quality, and habitat for endangered species. This book provides the basic knowledge necessary to implement successful, long-term management and rehabilitation programs.
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Contents
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5 Biotic Functions of Riparia | 125 |
6 Biophysical Connectivity and Riparian Functions | 159 |
7 Disturbance and Agents of Change | 189 |
8 Management | 233 |
9 Conservation | 269 |
10 Restoration | 291 |
11 Synthesis | 327 |
Bibliography | 357 |
Index | 415 |
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activities adaptive alluvial altered aquatic arthropods assessment basin biodiversity biomass biophysical biotic catchment changes characteristics classification climate complex cottonwood cycle dams Décamps denitrification deposition diversity downstream dynamics ecological ecosystem effects environment environmental erosion example Figure flood floodplain flow paths flow regime flow regulation fluvial fluxes function geomorphic geomorphology gradients groundwater habitat human hydrologic hyporheic zones important increase influence integrity interactions land landscape large woody debris levels litter Naiman natural nitrogen nutrients organic matter patches patterns percent perspective physical plant litter predictable processes production rates red alder regions restoration ripar riparian areas riparian buffer zones riparian buffers riparian communities riparian corridors riparian forests riparian management riparian plant riparian soils riparian systems riparian vegetation riparian zones river channel river corridors roots runoff scales sediment Sitka spruce spatial species richness strategies stream structure substrate subsurface successional surface temperature terrestrial tion trees types upland valley variability wetlands wildlife
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Page 271 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 370 - Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, OJ L 206, 22.7.1992.
Page 358 - Schwarz, 2000: Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico.
Page 236 - The public use of the banks of a river is part of the law of nations, just as is that of the river itself. All persons therefore are as much at liberty to bring their vessels to the bank, to fasten ropes to the trees growing there, and to place any part of their cargo there, as to navigate the river itself. But the banks of a river are the property of those whose land they adjoin : and consequently the trees growing on them are also the property of the same persons.
Page 376 - Harvey, JW, and KE Bencala. 1993. The effect of streambed topography on surface-subsurface water exchange in mountain catchments.
Page 363 - Brinson, MM, BL Swift, RC Plantico, and JS Barclay. 1981. Riparian Ecosystems: Their Ecology and Status.
Page 236 - Sed proprietas earum illorum est, quorum 4. The public use of the banks of a river is part of the law of nations, just as is that of the river itself. All persons, therefore, are as much at liberty to bring their vessels to the bank, to fasten ropes to the trees growing there, and to place any part of their cargo there, as to navigate the river itself. prsediis hserent : qua de causa arbores quoque in iisdem natse eorundem sunt.