Riparian vegetation response to altered disturbance and stress regimes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-123

  Shafroth, Patrick B ^a   Stromberg, Juliet C ^b   Patten, Duncan T ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel narrowing; Disturbance; Plant invasion; Populus; Riparian vegetation; Salix; Seedling establishment; Species composition; Streamflow regulation; Stress; Tamarix; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOW REGULATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

ARIZONA; BILL WILLIAMS RIVER; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS FREMONTII; RIPARIA; SALIX; SALIX GOODDINGII; TAMARIX; TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 0036160221     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0107:RVRTAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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