RIPARIAN REFORESTATION IN AN URBANIZING WATERSHED: EFFECTS OF UPLAND CONDITIONS ON INSTREAM ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS (R825798)

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RIPARIAN REFORESTATION IN AN URBANIZING WATERSHED: EFFECTS OF UPLAND CONDITIONS ON INSTREAM ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS (R825798)

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The restoration of riparian forests has become a major focus of watershed initiatives and efforts to meet Clean Water Act goals. Funding is often available for restoration activity, with success measured as the amount of stream miles improved. Monitoring activities to measure the real ecological and environmental benefits are rare, and there is a real danger of wasting effort on techniques that are inappropriate for local conditions.

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(i) To better understand the effects of riparian reforestation on the structure, function, and dynamics of stream ecosystems in urbanizing watersheds; (ii) To define exposure-response relationships for a suite of structural and functional stream ecosystem attributes based on the level of upland or contributing watershed urbanization (disturbance) for reaches with and without riparian forests; (iii) To develop two models (a reach-scale channel evolution model and an empirical screening-level model) to help local and state decision makers prioritize riparian reforestation efforts based on level of expected ecological benefit; and (iv) To measure and evaluate the rates at which various chemical, physical, and biological variables respond to riparian reforestation, thereby defining effectiveness criteria for a restoration activity that may take many years to be fully manifested.

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Date Published	2007-11-20T05:14:03Z
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