Renewing Our Rivers: Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions

Herausgeber: Briggs, Mark K.; Osterkamp, Waite R.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1010g
• ISBN-13: 9780816541485
• ISBN-10: 0816541485
• Artikelnr.: 59583231

Autorenporträt

Mark K. Briggs is a stream ecologist with more than twenty-five years of experience restoring streams in the western United States and northern Mexico. He led binational restoration efforts along the Rios Grande and Bravo and the Colorado River. He is the author of Riparian Ecosystem Recovery in Arid Lands. Briggs is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona and sits on the editorial board of the international journal Restoration Ecology. W. R. Osterkamp (1939-2020) was a research hydrologist, emeritus, for the U.S. Geological Survey. His research included bottomland dynamics, interactions of vegetation with water and sediment, channel islands, and fluvial processes of arid areas. He published articles on geomorphology, hydrology, geology, sediment movement, ecology, water quality, archaeology, and the economic benefits of earth-science and sediment networks.