Floodplains (eBook)

Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services

Jeffrey J. Opperman, Peter B. Moyle, Eric W. Larsen, Joan L. Florsheim, Amber D. Manfree (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96632-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Floodplainsprovides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. It synthesizes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and how under appropriate management these processes can provide benefits to society ranging from healthy fish populations to flood-risk reduction. Drawing on the framework of reconciliation ecology, the authors explore how new concepts for floodplain ecosystem restoration and management can increase these benefits. Additionally, they use case studies from California's Central Valley and other temperateregions to show how innovative management approaches are reshaping rivers and floodplains around the world.

Inhalt

Authors
Acknowledgments

1 • INTRODUCTION TO TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS
2 • HYDROLOGY
3 • GEOMORPHOLOGY
4 • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
5 • ECOLOGY: INTRODUCTION
6 • FLOODPLAIN FORESTS
7 • PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PRODUCTION
8 • FISHES AND OTHER VERTEBRATES
9 • ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND FLOODPLAIN RECONCILIATION
10 • FLOODPLAINS AS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
11 • CASE STUDIES OF FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION
12 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY
13 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS TODAY
14 • RECONCILING CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS
15 • CONCLUSIONS: MANAGING TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS FOR MULTIPLE BENEFITS

References
Geospatial Data Sources
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: California • Central Valley • conservation • Ecology • ecosystem • Ecosystem Restoration • Environment • Environmentalism • Fishing • fish populations • Flood • Floodplains • Flood risk • geomorphology • Hydrology • land management • Life Sciences • natural resources • Nature • Nonfiction • Preservation • reconciliation ecology • rivers • Science • Water • Water Management • water table
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96632-5 / 0520966325
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96632-1 / 9780520966321