Floodplains

Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services

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

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29410-3 (ISBN)

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Provides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. This book includes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and how these processes can provide a range of benefits to society under appropriate management.

Floodplains provides 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 temperate regions to show how innovative management approaches are reshaping rivers and floodplains around the world.

Jeffrey J. Opperman is the global lead freshwater scientist for WWF and a research associate at the University of California, Davis. Peter B. Moyle is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Eric W. Larsen is a research scientist and fluvial geomorphologist in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Joan L. Florsheim is a researcher in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, and earth-surface processes at the Earth Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Amber D. Manfree is a postdoctoral researcher in geography at the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.

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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

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	49 illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-520-29410-6 / 0520294106
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29410-3 / 9780520294103
Zustand	Neuware