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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thoms, Martin.
- 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:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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