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Author Briggs, Mark K

Title Renewing Our Rivers Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions
Published : University of Arizona Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (489 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Case for Stream Corridor Restoration -- 2. Stream Corridor Restoration: Some Assembly Required -- Case Study 2.1. Example of a Restoration Goal -- Case Study 2.2. Restoring Native Fish in the Murray-Darling River, Australia -- 3. Assessing the Hydrological and Physical Conditions of a Drainage Basin -- 4. Adapting Your Stream Restoration Project to Climate Change
Case Study 4.1. Analysis of Trends in Climate and Streamflow to Inform Water Management Decisions in the Río Conchos, Chihuahua, Mexico -- Case Study 4.2. Protecting the Kooragang Wetlands from Rising Sea Levels -- Case Study 4.3. Using Vulnerability Assessments to Strengthen Climate-Adaptive Conservation Response to Climate Change -- Case Study 4.4. Assessing the Vulnerability of Reestablishing Obligate Riparian Trees Along a Desert Stream to Climate Change -- 5. Quantifying and Securing Environmental Flow
Case Study 5.1. Applying La Norma Mexicana de Caudal Ecológico (Ecologic Flows Policy of Mexico) to Establish a Water Reserve in the Rio Hardy, Mexico -- Case Study 5.2. Coordinating Reservoir Management and Environmental Flows on the Bill Williams River, Arizona -- Case Study 5.3. The Colorado River Delta Water Trust -- Case Study 5.4. Protecting Flow for a Critically Endangered Species -- Case Study 5.5. Rewatering the Colorado River Delta -- Case Study 5.6. Unique Conservation Partnerships to Support Native Freshwater Ecosystems Along the Middle Rio Grande
6. Implementation: Putting Your Stream Corridor Restoration Plan into Action -- Case Study 6.1. Two Rivers Traffic Management Plan -- Case Study 6.2. Making Stream Restoration Alluring for Ranchers -- Case Study 6.3. Controlling Tamarisk Monocultures at the Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge -- Case Study 6.4. Controlling Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) in Riparian Flood Plains -- Case Study 6.5. A Collaborative, Binational Effort to Manage Giant Cane (Arundo donax) Along the Rio Grande / Río Bravo in Big Bend, U.S.-Mexico Border
Case Study 6.6. Conserving Native Small- Bodied Freshwater Fishes During Extreme Drought in the Lower Murray-Darling Basin, Australia -- Case Study 6.7. Protecting the Hottest Fish in the World -- Case Study 6.8. Pecos River Restoration and the Threatened Pecos Bluntnose Shiner, New Mexico -- Case Study 6.9. Reintroduction of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in the Rio Grande Basin -- 7. Monitoring the Results of Stream Corridor Restoration -- Case Study 7.1. Monitoring the Effectiveness of Managing Giant Cane Along the Rio Grande / Río Bravo in Big Bend
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Stream restoration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Arid regions ecology.
NATURE / General
Arid regions ecology
Stream restoration
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Osterkamp, Waite R
ISBN 9780816541874
0816541876