Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …
H umans have long been fascinated by the dynamism of free-flowing waters. Yet we have expended great effort to tame rivers for transportation, water supply, flood control …
This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …
A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …
Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators-capturing …
C Nilsson, M Svedmark - Environmental management, 2002 - Springer
Recent research has emphasized the importance of riparian ecosystems as centers of biodiversity and links between terrestrial and aquatic systems. Riparian ecosystems also …
WC Johnson - Ecological monographs, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
This research was conducted to identify the factors that have permitted Populus—Salix woodland to expand into the formerly active channels of the Platte River and its two major …
MD White, KA Greer - Landscape and urban Planning, 2006 - Elsevier
We investigated the effects of watershed urbanization on streamflow characteristics and the riparian vegetation community of Los Peñasquitos Creek, in coastal Southern California. We …
WE Odum, EP Odum, HT Odum - Estuaries, 1995 - Springer
While the steady state is often seen as the final result of development in nature, a more realistic concept may be that nature pulses regularly to make a pulsing steady stata—a new …