Moving beyond the banks: Hyporheic restoration is fundamental to restoring ecological services and functions of streams

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1521-1525

  Hester, Erich T ^a   Gooseff, Michael N ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAMWATER; WATER EXCHANGE;

BENTHOS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; HABITAT; HUMAN; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; REVIEW; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); THERMOREGULATION; WATER POLLUTION; WOOD;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FRESH WATER; RHEOLOGY; RIVERS; WATER;

EID: 77749295491     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902988n     Document Type: Review

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