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Watershed Sensitivity to Disturbance in the Central Great Basin

BLAKE MENEKEN ENGELHARDT, Graduate Research Assistant, UNR, Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences

JEANNE CHAMBERS, Research Plant Ecologist, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

PETER WEISBERG, Assistant Professor, UNR, Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences

JERRY MILLER , Professor, Western Carolina University , Dept. of Geosciences

 

    
Abstract: The overall objectives of the GBEM project are to achieve a better understanding of the structure and functioning of watersheds and riparian ecosystems within the central Great Basin, and to develop guidelines for maintaining or restoring their integrity. This component of an ongoing study of watershed sensitivity will elucidate the relationships between riparian vegetation communities and geomorphic process zones (stream regions defined by morphology, sediment characteristics, hydrology, and behavior). The results will provide detailed information on how stream systems and associated plant communities have responded to past disturbance, and how they might respond in the future.

 

Funding provided by: Great Basin Ecosystem Management (GBEM) Project- USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

Project duration: September, 2007 - August, 2009

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