Watersheds and Riparian Ecosystems
 

GBEM-Team Leader

   -Jeanne Chambers

EPR-Project Leader

   -Robin Tausch

The Book

   -Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems

GBEM-Field Tour

Employment

Beaver, E. A., D. A. Pyke, J. C. Chambers, F. Landau, and S. D. Smith. 2005. Monitoring temporal change in riparian vegetation of Great Basin National Park. Western North American Naturalist. in press.

Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller (eds). 2004. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA. 303 pages.

Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller. 2004. Restoring and maintaining sustainable riparian ecosystems – the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project. Pages 1-23, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA

Tausch, R. J., C. L. Nowak, and S. A. Mensing. 2004. Climate change and associated vegetation dynamics during the Holocene: the paleoecological record. Pages 24-48 In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA

Miller, J. R., K. House, D. Germanoski, R.J. Tausch, and J. C. Chambers. 2004. Fluvial geomorphic responses to Holocene climate change. Pages 49-87, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Jewett, D. G., M. Lord, J. R. Miller, and J. C. Chambers. 2004. Geomorphic and hydrologic controls on surface and subsurface flow regimes in riparian meadow ecosystems. Pages 124-161 In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Amacher, M. C., J. Kotuby-Amacher, and P. R. Grossl. 2004. Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on water quality. Pages 162-195 In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA

Chambers, J. C., R. J. Tausch, J. L. Korfmacher, J. R. Miller, and D. G. Jewett. 2004. Effects of geomorphic processes and hydrologic regimes on riparian vegetation. In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Fleishman, E., J. B. Dunham, D. D. Murphy, and P. F. Brussard. 2004. Explanation, prediction, and maintenance of native species richness and composition. Pages 232-260 In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA
Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller. 2004. Process based approaches for managing and restoring riparian ecosystems. Pages 196-231, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Blank, R. R., J. C. Chambers, and D. C. Zamudio. 2003. Prescribed burning of central Nevada degraded riparian ecosystems: effects on soil and vegetation. Journal of Range Management. 56:387-395.

Wright, J. M. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. Restoring riparian meadows currently dominated by Artemisia using threshold and alternative state concepts: aboveground vegetation response. Applied Vegetation Science. 5:237-246.

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. Restoration of riparian meadows degraded by livestock grazing: above and below-ground responses. Plant Ecology 163:77-91.

Urbanska, K. M. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. High-elevation ecosystems. Pages 376-400. In: M. R. Perrow and A. J. Davies (eds.). Handbook of Restoration Ecology. Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Miller, J., D. Germanoski, K. Waltman, R. Tausch, and J. Chambers. 2001. Influence of late Holocene processes and landforms on modern channel dynamics in upland watersheds of central Nevada. Geomorphology. 38:373-391.

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2001. Restoration of riparian meadows degraded by livestock grazing: biomass and species composition responses. Journal of Range Management. 53:284-291.

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2001. Effects of water table, clipping, and species interactions on Carex nebrascensis and Poa pratensis in riparian meadows. Wetlands. 21:422-430.

Chambers, J. C. and A. R. Linnerooth. 2001. Restoring sagebrush dominated riparian corridors using alternative state and threshold concepts: environmental and seedling establishment response. Applied Vegetation Science. 4:157-166.

Germanoski, D., C. Ryder, and J. R. Miller. 2001. Spatial variation of incision and deposition within a rapidly incising upland watershed, central Nevada. In: Sediment: monitoring, modeling, and managing. Proceedings of the 7th Interagency Sedimentation Conference Vol 2, XI - 41 to 48., March 25 to 29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Chambers, J. C. J. R. Miller, R. J. Tausch, and D. Germanoski. 2001. Changes in vegetation and geomorphic processes in central Nevada watersheds over the past 5,000 years: implications for riparian ecosystms. In: Sediment: monitoring, modeling, and managing. Proceedings of the 7th Interagency Sedimentation Conference Vol 1, II-115, March 25 to 29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Amacher, M. C. and J. Kotuby-Amacher. 2001. Stream cutbank erosion in central Nevada streams. In: Sediment: monitoring, modeling, and managing. In: Sediment: monitoring, modeling, and managing. Proceedings of the 7th Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Poster - 1, March 25 to 29, 2001, Reno, NV.

Castelli, R. M., J. C. Chambers, and R. Tausch. 2000. Soil-plant relations along a soil water gradient in Great Basin riparian meadows. Wetlands. 20:251-266.
Chambers, J. C. 2,000. Using threshold and alternative state concepts to restore degraded or disturbed ecosystems. Pages 134-145. In: Proceedings - High Altitude Revegetation Workshop No. 14. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO.

Chambers, J. C. 2000. Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project: restoring and maintaining riparian ecosystem integrity. Pages 110-113. In H. Y. Smith, ed. Proceedings: The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Project--what we have learned, May 18-20, 1999. Missoula, MT. RMRS-P-17. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO.

Chambers, J. C., R. R. Blank, D. C. Zamudio, and R. J. Tausch. 1999. Central Nevada riparian areas: physical and chemical properties of meadow soils. Journal of Range Management 52:91-98.

Chambers, J. C., K. Farleigh, R. J. Tausch, J. R. Miller, D. Germanoski, D. Martin, and C. Nowak. 1998. Understanding long- and short-term changes in vegetation and geomorphic processes: the key to riparian restoration. Pages 101-110. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Linnerooth, A. R., J. C. Chambers, and P. S. Mebine. 1998. Assessing the restoration potential of dry meadows using threshold and alternative states concepts. Pages 111-118. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Blank, R. R., J. C. Chambers, and A. Linnerooth. 1998. Influence of prescribed burning on riparian soils of central Nevada. Pages 235-242. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Chambers, J. C. 1997. Restoring alpine ecosystems in the western United States: environmental constraints, disturbance characteristics, and restoration success. Pages 161-187. In: K. M. Urbanska, N. R. Webb, and P. J. Edwards, eds. Restoration Ecology and Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Neale, C. M. U. 1997. Classification and mapping of riparian systems using airborne multispectral videography. Restoration Ecology 5:103-112.

Weixelman, D.A., D.C. Zamudio, K.A. Zamudio, and R.J. Tausch. 1997. Classifying ecological types and evaluating site degradation. J. Range Manage. 50:315-321.

Kotuby-Amacher, J. and M. C. Amacher, 1995. Comparisons of three methods of determiningtotal alkalinity in natural waters. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Research Paper INT-RP-480.

Chambers, J. C. 1994. Maintaining and restoring riparian ecosystem integrity in central Nevada: An Interdisciplinary ecosystem management project. In: Diverse Values: Seeking Common Ground. Northwest Regional Symposium, Boise, ID, December 8-9, 1994.

Chambers, J. C., J. A. MacMahon, and G. W. Wade. 1992. Differences in successional processes among biomes: importance for obtaining and evaluating reclamation success. in J. C. Chambers and G. W. Wade (eds), Evaluating reclamation success: the ecological considerations. A symposium held at the 1990 meeting of the American Society of Surface Mining and Reclamation. April 24 26, Charleston, West Virginia, USDA Forest Service, Northeast Forest Experiment Station. GTR NE-164.

Chambers, J. C. and G. W. Wade (eds). 1992. Evaluating reclamation success: the ecological considerations. A symposium held at the 1990 meeting of the American Society of Surface Mining and Reclamation April 24 26, Charleston, West Virginia. USDA Forest Service, Northeast Forest Experiment Station. GTR NE-164.

Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems, edited by Jeanne C. Chambers and Jerry R. Miller.

Presents the approach used by the researchers to study and understand riparian areas in the Great Basin region.