Streams Past and Future: Fluvial Responses to Rapid Environmental Change in the Context of Historical Variation

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 232-245

  Auerbach, Daniel A ^a   Leroy Poff, N ^a   McShane, Ryan R ^a   Merritt, David M ^a,b   Pyne, Matthew I ^a   Wilding, Thomas K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic and riparian ecosystems, patterns of variation in key regimes; Damming, land use change, altering discharge patterns in channel networks; Environmental regimes, dynamic interplay in spatial temporal variation; Flow regimes as management targets, desirable states to societal need; Past ecosystem forms processes, and uncertainty in decision making; Population, community, biogeochemical dynamics in rivers and streams; Riverine ecosystem function, five principles; Riverine ecosystems, physical fluxes, organisms and shared habitat; Shifts in range of environmental regimes, altering niches in rivers; Streams past and future, fluvial responses and historical variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887204569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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