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Great Basin riparian areas : ecology, management, and restoration / edited by Jeanne C. Chambers and Jerry R. Miller ; foreword by James A. MacMahon

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Great Basin riparian ecosystems
Published
Washington, DC : Island Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Chambers, Jeanne C., Miller, Jerry R. (Jerry Russell), 1960-, MacMahon, James A., and Society for Ecological Restoration International
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Restoring and maintaining sustainable riparian ecosystems : the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project / Jeanne C. Chambers and Jerry R. Miller -- Climate change and associated vegetation dynamics during the Holocene : the paleoecological record / Robin J. Tausch, Cheryl L. Nowak, and Scott A. Mensing -- Fluvial geomorphic responses to Holocene climate change / Jerry R. Miller [and others] -- Basin sensitivity to channel incision in response to natural and anthropogenic disturbance / Dru Germanoski and Jerry R. Miller -- Geomorphic and hydrologic controls on surface and subsurface flow regimes in riparian meadow ecosystems / David G. Jewett [and others] -- Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on water quality / Michael C. Amacher, Janice Kotuby-Amacher, and Paul R. Grossl -- Effects of geomorphic processes and hydrologic regimes on riparian vegetation / Jeanne C. Chambers [and others] -- Explanation, prediction, and maintenance of native species richness and composition / Erica Fleishman [and others] -- Process-based approaches for managing and restoring riparian ecosystems / Jeanne C. Chambers [and others].
Summary
Established by the USDA Forest Service in 1993, the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project for Restoring and Maintaining Sustainable Riparian Ecosystems is a large-scale research study that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the effects of climate change and human disturbance on riparian areas. Structured as a collaborative effort between management and research, the project focuses on understanding the geomorphic, hydrologic, and biotic processes that underlie riparian structure and function and the interrelated responses of those processes to disturbances, both natural and anthropogenic. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems, edited by Jeanne C. Chambers and Jerry R. Miller, presents the approach used by the researchers to study and understand riparian areas in the Great Basin region. It summarizes the current state of knowledge about those areas and provides insights into the use of the information generated by the project for the restor-ation and management of riparian ecosystems. Because semi-arid ecosystems like the Great Basin are highly sensitive to climate change, the study considered how key processes are affected by past and present climate. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems also examined the processes over a continuum of temporal and spatial scales. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems addresses restoration over a variety of scales and integrates work from multiple disciplines, including riparian ecology, paleoecology, geomorphology, and hydrology. While the focus is on the Great Basin, the general approach is widely applicable, as it describes a promising new strategy for developing restoration and management plans, one based on sound principles derived from attention to natural systems.
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ISBN
9781597262941
1597262943
1559639865 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781559639866 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1559639873 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781559639873 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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