Filters: partyWithName: Auble, Gregor T (X) > partyWithName: Friedman, Jonathan M (X)
2 results (8ms)|
Filters
Date Range
Extensions Types Contacts
Categories |
The intense demand for river water in arid regions is resulting in widespread changes in riparian vegetation. We present a direct gradient method to predict the vegetation change resulting from a proposed upstream dam or diversion. Our method begins with the definition of vegetative cover types, based on a census of the existing vegetation in a set of 1 x 2 m plots. A hydraulic model determines the discharge necessary to inundate each plot. We use the hydrologic record, as defined by a flow duration curve, to determine the inundation duration for each plot. This allows us to position cover types along a gradient of inundation duration. A change in river management results in a new flow duration curve, which is used...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Journal Citation;
Tags: Ecological Applications,
Environmental impacts,
bottomland vegetation,
dam,
discharge,
This study explores how the relationship between flow and riparian vegetation varies along a montane river. We mapped occurrence of woody riparian plant communities along 58 km of the San Miguel River in southwest- ern Colorado. We determined the recurrence interval of inundation for each plant community by combining step-back- water hydraulic modeling at 4 representative reaches with Log-Pearson analysis of 4 stream gaging stations. Finally, we mapped bottomland surficial geology and used a Geographic Information System to overlay the coverages of geology and vegetation. Plant communities were distinctly arrayed along the hydrologic gradient. The Salix exigua Nuttall (sand- bar willow) community occurred mostly...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Populus angustifolia,
channel change,
flood,
gradient analysis,
inundation,
|
|
