Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration

Informationen zum Autor Jeanne C. Chambers is research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service! Rocky Mountain Research Station in Reno! Nevada; she served as the team leader of the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project.Jerry R. Miller is the Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences at Western Carolina University in Sylva! North Carolina. Klappentext Established by the USDA Forest Service in 1993! the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project for Restoring and Maintaining Sustainable Riparian Ecosystems is a large-scale research study that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the effects of climate change and human disturbance on riparian areas. Structured as a collaborative effort between management and research! the project focuses on understanding the geomorphic! hydrologic! and biotic processes that underlie riparian structure and function and the interrelated responses of those processes to disturbances! both natural and anthropogenic. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems! edited by Jeanne C. Chambers and Jerry R. Miller! presents the approach used by the researchers to study and understand riparian areas in the Great Basin region. It summarizes the current state of knowledge about those areas and provides insights into the use of the information generated by the project for the restor-ation and management of riparian ecosystems. Because semi-arid ecosystems like the Great Basin are highly sensitive to climate change! the study considered how key processes are affected by past and present climate. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems also examined the processes over a continuum of temporal and spatial scales. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems addresses restoration over a variety of scales and integrates work from multiple disciplines! including riparian ecology! paleoecology! geomorphology! and hydrology. While the focus is on the Great Basin! the general approach is widely applicable! as it describes a promising new strategy for developing restoration and management plans! one based on sound principles derived fromattention to natural systems. Zusammenfassung This title presents a disciplinary approach to conducting large-scale watershed and ecosystem management projects. It focuses on the semi-arid Great Basin area of the US! which is highly sensitive to both climate change processes and natural and human disturbance. ...

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne C. (EDT)/ Miller Chambers, Jeanne C. Miller Chambers
• Assisted by: Jeanne C. Chambers (Editor), Chambers Jeanne C. (Editor), Jerry R. Miller (Editor), Miller Jerry R. (Editor), MacMahon James A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9781559639873
• ISBN: 978-1-55963-987-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Science and Practice of Ecolog
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, United States of America, USA, Ecological science, the Biosphere