This review aims to determine how environmental characteristics of aquatic habitats rule
species occurrence, life-history traits and community dynamics among aquatic plants, and if …

Floodplain forests offer a diversity of habitats and resources for a very wide range of plant
and animal species. They also offer many benefits to humankind and are considered …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Biogenic features such as beaver dams, large wood, and live vegetation are essential to the
maintenance of complex stream ecosystems, but these features are largely absent from …

Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications is a general text covering
both basic and applied aspects of freshwater ecology and serves as an introduction to the …

1. This review is presented as a broad synthesis of riverine landscape diversity, beginning
with an account of the variety of landscape elements contained within river corridors …

Perturbations in ecosystems consist of a sequence of 2 events: the disturbance, marked by
the application of the disturbing forces, and the response shown by the biota to the damage …

The predominant emphasis on harmful effects of environmental stresses on growth of woody
plants has obscured some very beneficial effects of such stresses. Slowly increasing …

Information about the relative biodiversity value of different waterbody types is a vital pre-
requisite for many strategic conservation goals. In practice, however, exceptionally few inter …

Abstract Hierarchical and branching river networks interact with dynamic watershed
disturbances, such as fires, storms, and floods, to impose a spatial and temporal …