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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes [electronic resource].

Elsevier ScienceDirect eBook - Environmental Science 2023 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thoms, Martin.
Contributor:
Fuller, Ian.
Language:
English
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (678 p.)
Place of Publication:
San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
Contents:
Front Cover
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
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
Further reading
2
The resilience of riverine ecological communities
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
3
Resilient floodplains in the Anthropocene
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
Using floodplains to study resilience
Contemporary floodplain management and restoration
Acknowledgements
4
Understanding changing riverine landscapes: instability, thresholds, and tipping points
Understanding change in riverine landscapes
Concepts of change: stability, change, thresholds and tipping points
Hapuku River, New Zealand: an example of river metamorphosis
Narran Floodplain, Australia: an example of thresholds and tipping points
Sediment stratigraphy
Sediment character of the depositional sequences
Depositional thresholds and tipping points
Trophic status of the Mississippi River: an example of complex response
A study of change in ecological function
Changes in ecological functioning
Complex response of ecological changes
5
Resilience and adaptive cycles in water-dependent ecosytems: Can panarchy explain trajectories of change among ...
Introduction
The Murray-Darling Basin
a Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) and E. largiflorens (Black Box) floodplain vegetation ...
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Other Format:
Print version: Thoms, Martin Resilience and Riverine Landscapes
ISBN:
9780323972055
0323972055
OCLC:
1411309850
Access Restriction:
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