Sustaining ecosystem services in human-dominated watersheds: Biohydrology and ecosystem processes in the South Platte River Basin

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dc.contributor.authorStrange, E. M.en
dc.contributor.authorFausch, K. D.en
dc.contributor.authorCovich, A. P.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Platte Riveren
dc.coverage.spatialRocky Mountainsen
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:11:40Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:11:40Zen
dc.date.issued1999en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractSustaining ecosystem services important to humans while providing a dependable water supply for agriculture and urban needs is a major challenge faced by managers of human-dominated watersheds. Modification of natural flow regimes alters the abundance and composition of native plant and animal communities, affecting ecosystem services such as water storage and nutrient cycling that depend on particular species or functional groups. Because complete restoration of natural hydrology is generally not an option in human-dominated watersheds, there is a need to determine which specific flow manipulations are necessary to restore species-dependent ecosystem services in particular systems. Here we propose a framework for predicting ecological consequences of flow manipulations that is based on the role of hydrology in linking population, community, and ecosystem processes. We use a case-study approach to examine how interactions among the flow regime and species' functional traits help organize local biotic communities and generate alternate states of ecosystem functioning. Results indicate the importance of integrating hydrology and biology to predict ecological consequences of flow regime manipulations and the need to apply general flow-restoration principles on a case-by-case basis.en
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dc.identifier1566en
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Management 24(1): 39-54en
dc.identifier.issn0364-152Xen
dc.identifier.issn1432-1009en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66673en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNew York, NY: Springer-Verlag New York, LLCen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1999 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectWatershed managementen
dc.subjectAquatic ecosystemsen
dc.subjectBiohydrologyen
dc.subjectCommunity assemblyen
dc.subjectEcological integrityen
dc.subjectWatershed restorationen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleSustaining ecosystem services in human-dominated watersheds: Biohydrology and ecosystem processes in the South Platte River Basinen
dc.typeAbstracten
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