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Floodplain vegetation following over 80 years of intensive land use and de-watering : Lower Owens River, California

Creator:

Risso, Derek A.

Abstract:

Riparian areas in the arid western United States are critical ecosystems that have been severely degraded by a variety of land and water uses over the last 100 years. In this study, the composition and structure of floodplain vegetation along the Lower Owens River in eastern California was quantitatively described...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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(Horton 1977, Borell 1962). These species are associated with declining water tables and altered