Can warmwater streams be rehabilitated using watershed-scale standard erosion control measures alone?

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-79

  Shields Jr , F Douglas ^a   Knight, Scott S ^a   Cooper, Charles M ^a  

^a USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel incision; Ecosystem rehabilitation; Fish; Instream structures; Monitoring; Restoration assessment; River restoration

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL INCISION; ECOSYSTEM REHABILITATION; INSTREAM STRUCTURES; RESTORATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER RESTORATION;

CONDITION MONITORING; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; LAND USE; OCEAN HABITATS; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

STREAM FLOW;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMONITORING; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EROSION CONTROL; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HABITAT RESTORATION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INSTREAM FLOW; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER CHANNEL; WARM WATER; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; STREAM (RIVER); VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MISSISSIPPI; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMIDAE; CENTRARCHIDAE;

EID: 34249885823     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-006-0191-0     Document Type: Article

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