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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"urban riparian"”.
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Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
… ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas; however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A quantitative assessment of the ecological impairments in an urban river system can provide a key component in a basin-scale management …
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Evaluation of Urban Riparian Buffers on Stream Health in the Tookany Watershed, PA
Stream channels and their corresponding riparian zones are composed of complex spatially and temporally dynamic systems. Changing land-use associated with urbanization has resulted in large shifts in riparian assemblages, stream hydraulics, and sediment dynamics leading to the degradation of the …
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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
… study 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 …
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Evaluation of Ecological Function of Urban Riparian and Stream Systems: Guiding Ecological Restoration in Austin, Texas, USA
… impacted by human activities. Restoration of riparian areas is a common recommendation of water management plans today and often deemed necessary to maintain ecosystem sustainability. Assessment of the condition of ecosystems is a critical prerequisite for alleviating effects of the multiple …
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Spatial habitat variation in a Great Plains river: effects on the fish assemblage and food web structure
… isotope analysis. Satellite imagery indicated riparian habitat on the Kansas River was dominated by agriculture in the upper reaches (>35%) and tended to increase in urban land use in the lower reaches (>58%). Instream habitat complexity also decreased with increased urban area (<25%) becoming …
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Birds in Residential Metropolitan New Orleans Neighborhoods and Their Relationships to the Batture and Yard Vegetation
… summer of 2010. It was found that batture birds, urban birds, and pooled birds all had greater species richness and abundance in the spring in areas with more canopy cover, higher stem counts, more understory vegetation, and distances closer to the batture. In the summer, batture birds had greater …