Riparian Seedling Mortality from Simulated Water Table Recession, and the Design of Sustainable Flow Regimes on Regulated Rivers

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 284-294

  Stella, John C ^a   Battles, John J ^b   McBride, Joe R ^b   Orr, Bruce K ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Stillwater Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental flow; Populus; River regulation; Salicaceae; Salix; Seedling establishment; Survival analysis; Water table decline

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER FLOW; SEEDLING; SURVIVORSHIP; WATER TABLE;

CALIFORNIA; FREMONT [CALIFORNIA]; SAN JOAQUIN BASIN; TUOLUMNE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS FREMONTII; SALICACEAE; SALIX;

EID: 78449232899     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00651.x     Document Type: Article

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