A collaborative and adaptive process for developing environmental flow recommendations

River Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-318

  Richter, Brian D ^a   Warner, Andrew T ^a   Meyer, Judy L ^b   Lutz, Kim ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Dam operations; Environmental flow; Instream flow; River ecology; River restoration; River science; Sustainability; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

DAM REMOVAL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 33645281422     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.892     Document Type: Review

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