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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"riparian corridor"”.
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Effects of herbivory as an ecological constraint of willow growth at a restored riparian corridor
<p>A critical component of nearly all riparian restoration projects is the rapid successful recovery of native vegetation. The dynamic conditions and diverse biotic community supported by riparian ecosystems can present numerous constraints to restoration efforts. This study investigated stunted …
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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
… is to examine the public preferences for urban riparian corridors in arid regions, by testing to what extent people are willing to trade-off unmaintained ecological landscape for aesthetics offered by specific micro and macro environmental factors. Landscape design reflects ecological and …
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Effect Of Stream Channel Incision On The Depth To Groundwater In Riparian Corridors Across Southwestern Minnesota
Riparian buffers have the potential to remove nitrogen from shallow groundwater in the riparian corridor. Streams with a higher degree of incision may be less likely to have elevated groundwater tables, making them less effective at removing nitrogen from groundwater. By determining if there is a …
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Modeling riparian groundwater depth as a function of river flow for the Rio Grande at Albuquerque, NM
Riparian corridor ecological health is strongly tied to river streamflow. As climate change threatens to significantly reduce monthly streamflows in semi-arid regions, riparian groundwater will be similarly reduced, impacting native and non-native flora. This paper presents a geographic information …
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Coupling Agent-Based Models with Bayesian Belief Networks in Social-Ecological Systems Modeling: The Role of Uncertainty in the Resilience of Semi-Arid Riparian Corridors in the Sonoran Desert
… from the aquifer, and ecological – changes in riparian vegetation communities. The rancher decision-model, developed in the Rio San Miguel basin, used cognitive mapping and Bayesian modeling to express key decisions as a series of probabilities under a variety of environmental conditions. The …
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Banking on offsets: a political ecological and eco-geomorphic analysis of Section 404 compensatory stream mitigation banking in Illinois and Missouri
… mitigation banks provide stream credits through riparian corridor enhancement rather than in-channel stream work. Thus, stream credits are generated using work that is out-of-kind with impacts. Interviews with mitigation bankers and a St. Louis regulator reveal the underlying causes of this …
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First-year growth and survival of habitat revegetation trials on the lower Colorado River, Mexico
… flows in the 1980s and 1990s showed the riparian corridor remains resilient to past damage, and the CRD remains a vital area for habitat conservation and restoration. This project aimed to test conclusions drawn from similar projects in the United States and show that revegetation …
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First-year growth and survival of habitat revegetation trials on the lower Colorado River, Mexico
… flows in the 1980s and 1990s showed the riparian corridor remains resilient to past damage, and the CRD remains a vital area for habitat conservation and restoration. This project aimed to test conclusions drawn from similar projects in the United States and show that revegetation …
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The effects of flooding disturbance on the distribution and behaviour of riparian arthropods along a lowland gravel river
… influence the assemblage structure of mobile, riparian arthropods along spatially structured river banks of a rain-fed, lowland gravel river, the Common Meuse. As riverine ecosystems are basically non-equilibrium, dynamic ecosystems, mainly flow regimes and flood pulse characteristics are …
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Estimating Evapotranspiration of a Riparian Forest Using Sap Flow Measurements
… fields in floodplains with substantial riparian corridors, it is necessary to understand groundwater usage by dominant phreatophytic vegetation, particularly when the primary source of water for irrigation comes from groundwater abstraction. We report here results of estimated …
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Influences of land use on the structure and function of headwater streams: A multiple scale analysis
… spatial scales, including the entire watershed, riparian corridor, and riparian sub-corridors extending upstream in 200 m increments for 2 km. In-stream physico-chemical variables were related to land-cover patterns at different spatial scales. Dissolved constituents (e.g., TIN, alkalinity) were …
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The Ontogeny of Spatial Ecology and Habitat Use in a Population of Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon Piscivorus) in Southwest Missouri
… movements along the stream banks within the riparian corridor of the study area. Age, sex and reproductive status all appear to strongly influence snake home range size and location, as well as habitat use. A discriminant function analysis of habitat measurements revealed that juveniles used …
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Use of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Technologies to Describe Mosquito Population Dynamics in the Ray Roberts Greenbelt, Denton County, Texas
… occurring on the Ray Roberts Greenbelt, a riparian corridor used for public recreation on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, in Denton County, Texas. ArcGIS software was used to set up a stratified random sampling design based on habitat parameters. Multivariate analyses of sampling data …
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Livestock Exclusion Effects on the Structure and Function of Headwater Streams
… Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). We measured riparian plant characteristics along with stream organic matter dynamics, benthic macroinvertebrates, algal biomass, and leaf breakdown in non-fenced, fenced, and forested streams. Increased growth of non-woody vegetation and the pre-existence of …
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Assessing Cow Creek following a riparian restoration
… over 100 years but is currently the subject of a riparian restoration project by the Washington Department of Ecology. Fencing was installed to exclude cattle from the riparian corridor, but livestock practices in the watershed continue. I assessed the ecosystem health of Cow Creek using two …
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Flood Processes in Semi-arid Streams: Sediment Transport, Flood Routing, and Groundwater - Surface Water Interactions
… This implies that a stream that supports a wide riparian corridor may be in danger of vegetation die-offs with even shallow depletions of the groundwater table.
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The Role of Urban Climate and Land Cover in Phenology, Nest Success, and Habitat Use
… to rural gradient. The sites were located in a riparian corridor passing through the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nevada. Study area temperature anomalies from the 20-yr normal strongly impacted nest survival rates of American Robins (Turdus migratorius), Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), and …
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Water Use and Water Tolerance in the Riparian Species American Sycamore (Plantanus occidentalis L.) and How its Physiology Compares to the Coexisting Black Willow (Salix nigra Marshall)
… and tolerance to inundation and drought of two riparian tree species, <em>Platanus occidentalis</em> L. and <em>Salix nigra</em> Marshall. The main goal of the study was to better understand the two species and assess the suitability of <em>P. occidentalis </em>for use in riparian restoration. …