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Influence Of Urbanization On Woody Riparian Plant Communities
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Book Synopsis Influence of Urbanization on Woody Riparian Plant Communities by : James Robert Hansel
Download or read book Influence of Urbanization on Woody Riparian Plant Communities written by James Robert Hansel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined how urbanization affects woody riparian plant communities along an urban gradient. The objectives were to characterize woody riparian plant communities and identify how nearby land-cover influences these assemblages. Canopy and understory woody plant data were collected at 71 riparian sites in the Mill Creek watershed during the summer of 2002. Land-use variables were quantified by a Geographic Information System (GIS) and satellite imagery that classified land-cover type. I found that exotic canopy species are positively correlated with urbanization while native canopy and understory plants were negatively correlated to urbanization. Certain native and exotic woody species appear to be good indicators of varying intensities of urbanization.
Book Synopsis Riparian Areas by : National Research Council
Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Plains grassland region by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Plains grassland region written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of water level changes on woody riparian and wetland communities by :
Download or read book Impact of water level changes on woody riparian and wetland communities written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wetlands and Urbanization by : Amanda Azous
Download or read book Wetlands and Urbanization written by Amanda Azous and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization affects wetlands in direct and indirect ways. Over the past several decades it has become increasingly apparent that unmanaged runoff is the primary threat to the country's watershed resources. Wetlands and Urbanization: Implications for the Future is the result of a ten year research project focused on the understanding and ma
Book Synopsis Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes by : Gary M. Lovett
Download or read book Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes written by Gary M. Lovett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work connects the knowledge of system function developed in ecosystem ecology with landscape ecology's knowledge of spatial structure. The book elucidates the challenges faced by ecosystem scientists working in spatially heterogeneous systems, relevant conceptual approaches used in other disciplines and in different ecosystem types, and the importance of spatial heterogeneity in conservation resource management.
Book Synopsis Riparian Woody Plant Diversity, Composition, and Structure Across an Urban-rural Land Use Gradient in the Piedmont of Georgia, US by :
Download or read book Riparian Woody Plant Diversity, Composition, and Structure Across an Urban-rural Land Use Gradient in the Piedmont of Georgia, US written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Central forest region by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Central forest region written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Watershed Hydrology by : Vijay P. Singh
Download or read book Watershed Hydrology written by Vijay P. Singh and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of Habitat Alterations on Riparian Plant and Animal Communities in Iowa by :
Download or read book Effects of Habitat Alterations on Riparian Plant and Animal Communities in Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Plant and soil responses to flooding by : Robert O. Teskey
Download or read book Impact of Water Level Changes on Woody Riparian and Wetland Communities: Plant and soil responses to flooding written by Robert O. Teskey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Applied Urban Ecology by : Matthias Richter
Download or read book Applied Urban Ecology written by Matthias Richter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework explores ways in which the environmental quality of urban areas can be improved starting with existing environmental conditions and their dynamics. Written by an internationally renowned selection of scientists and practitioners, the book covers a broad range of established and novel approaches to applied urban ecology. Approaches chosen for the book are placed in the context of issues such as climate change, green- and open-space development, flood-risk assessment, threats to urban biodiversity, and increasing environmental pollution (especially in the “megacities” of newly industrialized countries). All topics covered were chosen because they are socially and socio-politically relevant today. Further topics covered include sustainable energy and budget management, urban water resource management, urban land management, and urban landscape planning and design. Throughout the book, concepts and methods are illustrated using case studies from around the world. A closing synopsis draws conclusions on how the findings of urban ecological research can be used in strategic urban management in the future. Applied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework is an advanced textbook for students, researchers and experienced practitioners in urban ecology and urban environmental research, planning, and practice.
Book Synopsis Selected Water Resources Abstracts by :
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Relationships Between Riparian Vegetation, Hydrology, Climate and Disturbance Across the Western United States by : Nathaniel Hough-Snee
Download or read book Relationships Between Riparian Vegetation, Hydrology, Climate and Disturbance Across the Western United States written by Nathaniel Hough-Snee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow regime, the magnitude, duration and timing of streamflow, controls the development of floodplain landforms on which riparian vegetation communities assemble. Streamflow scours and deposits sediment, structures floodplain soil moisture dynamics, and transports propagules. Flow regime interacts with environmental gradients like climate, land-use, and biomass-removing disturbance to shape riparian plant distributions across landscapes. These gradients select for groups of riparian plant species with traits that allow them to establish, grow, and reproduce on floodplains 0́3 riparian vegetation guilds. Here I ask, what governs the distributions of groups of similar riparian plant species across landscapes? To answer this question, I identify relationships between riparian vegetation guilds and communities and environmental gradients across the American West. In Chapter One, I discuss guild-based classification in the context of community ecology and streams. In Chapter Two, I identified five woody riparian vegetation guilds across the interior Columbia and upper Missouri River Basins, USA, based on species0́9 traits and morphological attributes. I modeled guild occurrence across environmental gradients, including climate, disturbance, channel form attributes that reflect hydrology, and relationships between guilds. I found guilds0́9 distributions were related to hydrology, disturbance, and competitive or complementary interactions (niche partitioning) between co-occurring guilds. In Chapter Three, I examine floodplain riparian vegetation across the American West, identifying how hydrology, climate, and floodplain alteration shape riparian vegetation communities and their guilds. I identified eight distinct plant communities ranging from high elevation mixed conifer forests to gallery cottonwood forests to Tamarisk-dominated novel shrublands. I aggregated woody species into four guilds based on their traits and morphological attributes: an evergreen tree guild, a mesoriparian shrub guild, a mesoriparian tree guild, and a drought and hydrologic disturbance tolerant shrub guild. Communities and guilds0́9 distributions were governed by climate directly, and indirectly as mediated through streamflow. In Chapter Four, I discuss the utility of guild-based assessments of riparian vegetation, current limitations to these approaches, and potential future applications of the riparian vegetation guild concept to floodplain conservation and management. The classification of vegetation into functional trait-based guilds provides a flexible, framework from which to understand riparian biogeography, complementing other models frameworks for riparian vegetation.
