Resilience and riverine landscapes:

Front Cover -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Resilience and riverine landscapes: An introduction -- Introduction -- Riverine landscapes and their ecosystems -- The resilience of riverine landscapes -- Applications...

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Weitere Verfasser: Thoms, Martin C. (HerausgeberIn), Fuller, Ian (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:Front Cover -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Resilience and riverine landscapes: An introduction -- Introduction -- Riverine landscapes and their ecosystems -- The resilience of riverine landscapes -- Applications and advancement of this edited volume -- A process of realisation and acknowledgements -- References -- 1 - Riverine landscapes and resilience -- Introduction -- Riverine landscapes through a different lens -- Resilience perspectives -- Applying resilience to riverine landscapes -- Absorbing capacity of riverine landscapes -- Adaptive capacity of riverine landscapes -- Transformative capacity of riverine landscapes -- Conclusions -- References -- Further reading -- 2 - The resilience of riverine ecological communities -- Introduction -- What is resilience in an ecological context? -- Are ecological communities in rivers resilient? -- Floods - pulse disturbances -- Droughts - ramp disturbances -- Anthropogenic pressures - press disturbances -- How are anthropogenic changes likely to impact ecological resilience? -- How can we retain ecological resilience? -- Prospective -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 - Resilient floodplains in the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- Characteristics of resilient floodplains -- Floodplain structure -- Functional responses -- Floodplain complexity leads to resilience -- Human alterations to floodplain resilience -- Floodplains as social-ecological systems -- Case studies -- Mountain streams of the Colorado Front Range: large wood and carbon -- Boreal rivers in northern Sweden: floodplain carbon storage and riparian plant communities -- Floodplains of the northern Murray Darling Basin, Australia -- The Atchafalaya Basin: a case study in human modification and resilience -- Understanding and managing resilient floodplains.
Beschreibung:xxii, 653 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9780323917162

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