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Management of riparian and aquatic ecosystems using variable-width buffers

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Abstract

Management of aquatic and riparian ecosystems is constrained because of the reliance on “off-the-shelf” and one-size-fits-all concepts and designs, rather than considering specific features and capabilities of the location of interest. As a result, use of fixed- width buffers that generally depend on stream size is the most common approach.

Parent Publication

Citation

Pickard, Brian; Reeves, Gordon H.; Johnson K. Norman. 2016. Management of riparian and aquatic ecosystems using variable-width buffers. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical  Report  SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/52018