The role of natural vegetative disturbance in determining stream reach characteristics in central Idaho and western Montana

Northwest Science

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 224-238

  Roper, Brett B ^a   Jarvis, Beau ^b   Kershner, Jeffrey L ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GIS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; REMOTE SENSING; STREAM; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

IDAHO; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547456149     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/0029-344X-81.3.224     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Agee, J. K. 1993. Fire ecology in Pacific Northwest forests. Island Press, Washington D.C.
2. Ager, A. A., and C. Clifton. 2005. Software for calculating vegetation disturbance and recovery by using the equivalent clearcut area model. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PNW-GTR-637, Corvallis, OR.
3. Baker, M. B., D. E. Weller, and T. E. Jordan. 2006. Comparison of automated watershed delineations; effects on land cover areas, percentages, and relationships to nutrient discharge. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72:159-168.
4. Belt, G. H., and J. O'Laughlin. 1994. Buffer strop design for protecting water quality and fish habitat. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 9(2):41-45.
5. Benda, L. E. 1994. Stochastic geomorphology in a humid mountain landscape. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
6. Benda, L., D. Miller, P. Bigelow, and K. Andras. 2003. Effects of post-fire-wildfire erosion on channel environments, Boise River Idaho. Forest Ecology and Management 178:105-119.
7. Benda, L., N. L. Poff, D. Miller, T. Dunne, G. Reeves, G. Press, and M. Pollock. 2004. The network dynamics hypothesis: how channel networks structure riverine habitats. Bioscience 54:413-427.
8. Brown, R. T., J. K. Agee, and J. F. Franklin. 2004. Forest restoration and fire: principles in the context of place. Conservation Biology 18:903-912.
9. Buffington, J. M., and D. R. Montgomery. 1999. Effects of hydraulic roughness on surface textures of gravel-bed rivers. Water Resources Research 35:3507-3521.
10. Chamberlin, T. W., R. D. Harr, and F. H. Everest. 1991. Timber harvest, silviculture, and watershed processes. Influences of Forest and Rangeland Management and Salmonid Fishes and their Habitats. American Fisheries Society Special Publications 19:181-205.
11. Cohen, W. B., T. A. Spies, R. J. Alig, D. R. Oetter, T. K. Maiersperger, and M. Fiorella. 2000. Characterizing 23 years (1972-95) of stand replacement disturbance in western Oregon forests with Landsat imagery. Ecosystems 5:122-137.
12. Dale, V. H., L. A. Joyce, S. McNulty, R. P. Neilson, M. A. Ayres, M. D. Flannigan, P. J. Hanson, L. C. Irelan, A. E. Lugo, C. J. Peterson, D. Simberloff, F. J. Swanson, B. J. Stocks, and B. M. Wotton. 2001. Climate change and forest disturbances. Bioscience 51:723-734.
13. Dose, J. J., and B. B. Roper. 1994. Long-term changes in low-flow channel widths within the South Umpqua Watershed, Oregon. Water Resources Bulletin 30:993-1000.
14. Dowdy, S., and S. Wearden. 1983. Statistics for research. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
15. Dunham, J. B., M. K. Young, R. E. Gresswell, and B. R. Rieman. 2003. Effects of fire on fish populations: landscape perspectives on the persistence of native fishes and nonnative fish invasion. Forest Ecology and Management 178:183-196.
16. Ebersole, J. L., W. J. Liss, and C. A. Frissell. 1997. Restoration of stream habitats in the western United States: restoration as reexpression of habitat capacity. Environmental Management 21:1-14.
17. Forest Service. 2003. Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Plan; Final Environmental Impact Statement. Available on line at www.fs.fed.us/r4/sc/ recreation/fcronr/fcronrindex.shtml#frank (accessed March 20, 2007)
18. Fore, L. S., J. R. Karr, and R. W. Wisseman, 1994. Assessing invertebrate responses to human approaches: evaluating alternative approaches. Journal of the North American Bethological Society 15:212-231.
19. Frelich, L. E. 2002. Forest dynamics and disturbance regimes: studies from temperate evergreen-deciduous forests. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
20. Furniss, M. J., T. D. Roelofs, and C. S. Yee. 1991. Road construction and maintenance. Influences of Forest and Rangeland Management and Salmonid Fishes and their Habitats. American Fisheries Society Special Publications 19:297-323.
21. Goetz, S. J., G. J. Fiske, and A. G. Bunn. 2006. Using satellite time-series data sets to analyze fire disturbance and forest recovery across Canada. Remote Sensing and the Environment 101:352-365.
22. Gregory, S. V., F. J. Swanston, W. A. McKee, and K. W. Cummins. 1991. An ecosystem perspective of riparian zones. Bioscience 41:540-555.
23. Gresswell, R. E. 1999. Fire and aquatic ecosystems in forested biomes of North America. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 128:193-221.
24. Hamill, K. A., and R. A. Bradstock. 2006. Remote sensing and fire severity in the Blue Mountains: influence of vegetation type and inferring fire severity. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:213-226
25. Hicks, B. J., R. L. Beschta, and R. D. Harr. 1991. Long-term changes in streamflow following logging in western Oregon and associated fisheries implications. Water Resources Bulletin 27:217-226.
26. Hilsenhoff, W. L. 1987. An improved biotic index of organic stream pollution. Great Lakes Entomologist 20:31-39.
27. Interior Columbia Ecosystem Basin Ecosystem Project. 1997. Data available at www.icbemp.gov/ (accessed on March 20, 2007).
28. Jensen, J. R. 1996. Introductory digital image processing: a remote sensing perspective. 2d ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
29. Karr, J. R., and L. W. Chu. 1999. Restoring life in running rivers; better biological monitoring. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
30. Kershner, J. L., E. K. Archer, M. Coles-Ritchie, E. R. Cowley, R. C. Henderson, K. Kratz, C. M. Quimby, D. L. Turner, L. C. Ulmer, and M. R. Vinson, 2004a. Guide to effective monitoring of aquatic and riparian resources. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-121, Fort Collins, CO.
31. Kershner, J. L., B. B. Roper, N. Bouwes, R. C. Henderson, and E. A. Archer, 2004b. A comparison of stream reach habitat characteristics in managed and reference watersheds on federal lands within the Columbia Basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1353-1365.
32. Knighton, D. 1998. Fluvial forms and processes; a new perspective. Arnold, New York.
33. Larsen, D. P., T. M. Kincaid, S. E. Jacobs, and N. S. Urquhart, 2001. Designs for evaluation local and regional trends. Bioscience 51:1069-1078.
34. Lee, D. C., and 21 other authors. 1997. An assessment of ecosystem components in the Interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basin. Volume 3. Broadscale assessment of aquatic species and habitats. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PNW-GTR-405, Corvallis, OR.
35. Leopold, L. B., M. G. Wolman, and J. P. Miller. 1964. Fluvial processes in geomorphology. W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA.
36. Maidment, D., and D. Djokic. 2000. Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling support with geographic information systems. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA.
37. Meehan, W. R. 1991. Influences of forest and rangeland management on salmonid fishes and their habitats. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 19.
38. Miller, D., C. Luce, and L. Benda. 2003. Time, space, and episodicity of physical disturbance in streams. Forest Ecology and Management 178:121-140.
39. Minshall, G. W., J. T. Brock, and J. D. Varley. 1989. Wildfires and Yellowstone stream ecosystems. Bioscience 39:707-715.
40. Minshall, G. W., T. V. Royer, and C. T. Robinson. 2001. Response of the Cache Creek macroinvertebrates during the first 10 years following disturbance by the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Canadian Journal of Fisheries Management 58:1077-1088.
41. Montgomery, D. R., and J. M. Buffington. 1997. Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins. Geological Society of America Bulletin 109:596-611.
42. Montgomery, D. R., and L. H. MacDonald. 2002. Diagnostic approach to stream channel assessment and monitoring. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:1-16.
43. National Aquatic Monitoring Center. 2005. Available on line at www.usu.edu/buglab/(accessed on March 20, 2007).
44. Office of the White House. 2002. Healthy forests: an initiative for wildfire prevention and stronger communities. Available online at www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthyforests/Healthy_Forests_v2.pdf. (accessed March 20, 2007).
45. Olsen, D. S., A. C. Whitaker, and D. F. Potts. 1997. Assessing stream channel stability thresholds using flow level competence estimates at bankfull stage. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 33:1197-1207.
46. Olsen, D. S., B. B. Roper, J. L. Kershner, R. Henderson, and E. Archer. 2005. Sources of variability in conducting pebble counts: their potential influence on the results of stream monitoring programs. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 41:1225-1236.
47. Pettorelli, N., J. Olav Vik, A. Mysterud, J. Gaillard, C. J. Tucker, N. C. Stenseth. 2005. Using the satellite-derived NDVI to assess ecological responses to environmental change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:503-510.
48. Potyondy, J. P., and T. Hardy, 1994. Use of pebble counts to evaluate fine sediment increase in stream channels. American Water Resources Association Bulletin 30(3):509-520.
49. Ralph, S. C., G. C. Poole, L. L. Conquest, and R. J. Naiman. 1994. Stream channel morphology and woody debris in logged and unlogged basins in Western Washington. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:37-51.
50. Reeves, G. H., L. E. Benda, K. M. Burnett, P. A. Bisson, and J. R. Sedell. 1995. A disturbance-based ecosystem approach to maintaining and restoring freshwater habitats of evolutionarily significant units of anadromous salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. American Fisheries Society Symposium 17:334-349.
51. Rieman, B., D. Lee, J. McIntyre, K. Overton, and R. Thurow. 1993. Consideration of extinction risks for salmonids. Fish Habitat Relationships Technical Bulletin, Number 14. USDA Forest Service. Available on line at www.fs.fed.us/biology/fishecology/currents/currents14.pdf (accessed May 16, 2007).
52. Reiman, B., and J. Clayton. 1997. Wildfire and native species: issue of forest health and conservation of sensitive species. Fisheries 11(2):6-13.
53. Reynoldson, T. B., R. H. Norris, V. H. Resh, K. E. Day, and D. M. Rosenberg. 1997. The reference condition: a comparison of multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess water-quality impairment using benthic macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Bethological Society 16:833-852.
54. Rollins, M. G., T. W. Swetnam, and P. Morgan. 2000. Twentieth-century fire patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico. Pages 283-287 in D. N. Cole, S. F. McCool, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin (editors). Wilderness science in a time of change conference - Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula MT Proceedings, USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5, Ogden UT.
55. Roper, B. B., J. L. Kershner, E. Archer, R. Henderson, and N. Bouwes. 2002. An evaluation of physical stream habitat attributes used to monitor streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:1637-1646.
56. Roper, B. B., J. L. Kershner, and R. C. Henderson. 2003. The value of using permanent siteswhen evaluating stream attributes at the reach scale. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 18:585-592.
57. Stevens, D. L. and A. R. Olsen. 1999. Spatially restricted surveys over time for aquatic Resources. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 4:415-428.
58. Sutherland, D. G., M. H. Ball, S. J. Hilton, and T. E. Lisle. 2002. Evolution of a landslide-induced sediment wave in the Navarro River, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114:1036-1048.
59. Tarboton, D. G., R. L. Bras, and I. Rodrigues-Iturbe. 1991 On the extraction of channel networks from digital elevation data. Water Resources Research 5:81-100.
60. United States Geological Survey. 1992. National Land Cover Data. Available online at http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.php (accessed on May 15, 2007).
61. Wood-Smith, R. D., and J. M. Buffington. 1996. Multivariate geomorphic analysis of forest streams: implications for assessment of land use impacts on channel conditions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21:377-393.
62. Yang, C. T. 2003. Sediment transport: theory and practice. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL.
63. Yount, J. D., and G. J. Niemi. 1990. Recovery of lotic communities and ecosystems from disturbance - a narrative case study. Environmental Management 14:547-570.
64. Zar, J. H. 1996. Biological analysis (third edition). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
65. Zhang, X., M. A. Friedl, C. B. Schaaf, A. H. Strahler, J. C. F. Hodges, B. C. Reed, and A. Huete. 2003. Monitoring vegetation phenology. Remote Sensing of Environment 84:471-475.