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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

UMESC Publications

Past, present, and future concepts in large river ecology

Johnson, B. L., Richardson, W. B., and Naimo, T. J., 1995, Past, present, and future concepts in large river ecology: Bioscience, v. 45, no. 3, p. 134-141.

Abstract

How rivers function and how human activities influence river processes. Many important questions are likely to require natural experiments or large-scale manipulations that compare rivers or river reaches.

Keywords: rivers, watersheds, resource-management, ecology, water-resources-management, environmental-effects, river-basin-management, environmental-impact, ecosystems