Responses to riparian restoration in the Spring Creek watershed, Central Pennsylvania

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 731-742

  Carline, Robert F ^a   Walsh, Mary C ^b,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Western Pennsylvania Conservancy   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing; Macroinvertebrate communities; Restoration; Riparian; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; SPRING CREEK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37249041902     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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