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JAWRA April 2010 Highlights
March 30, 2010 | Posted by smcclung
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JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Featured Collection: Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers
This issue presents a Featured Collection on Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers, organized by Guest Associate Editors Paul M. Mayer, Albert H. Todd, and Judith A. Okay, and Associate Editor Kathleen A. Dwire. The 10 papers stem from key presentations at the 2008 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference, “Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers: Working at the Water’s Edge.” Key themes were: riparian ecosystems as corridors; nutrient processing at the landscape scale; riparian buffer function; and modeling and monitoring techniques.
Some key articles are:
Michael Kline and Barry Cahoon describe river corridor planning in Vermont, whereby corridors are sized based on the meander belt width and assigned a sensitivity rating based on the likelihood of channel adjustment due to stressors.
M.G. Dosskey et al. review the research literature and summarize the major processes by which riparian vegetation influences chemical water quality in streams.
P. Vidon et al. discuss the implications for riparian zone management of recognizing the importance of “hot” phenomena in annual solute budgets at the watershed scale.
Jeffrey J. Opperman et al. propose a conceptual model that captures key attributes of ecologically functional floodplains.
Other technical papers:
Ahmed E. Al-Juaidi et al. address the use of treated wastewater in agriculture while considering net benefit, economic efficiency of water use, environmental goals, and public health risks.
Monica Lipscomb Smith et al. report the National Land-Cover Database (NLCD) may yield important biases in urban, suburban, and exurban hydrologic analyses where land cover is characterized by fine-scale spatial heterogeneity.
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