Aridland springs in North America : ecology and conservation / edited by Lawrence E. Stevens and Vicky J. Meretsky ; with a foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan.
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press and The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum,
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-390) and index.
Contents:
Every last drop : future springs ecosystem ecology and management / Lawrence E. Stevens. Demise of desert springs / Peter J. Unmack and W.L. Minckley -- Hydrology of desert springs in North America / David K. Kreamer and Abraham E. Springer -- Comprehensive springs classification system : integrating geomorphic, hydrogeochemical, and ecological criteria / Abraham E. Springer ... [et. al.] -- Quaternary cauldron springs as paleoecological archives / C. Vince Haynes Jr. -- Extreme environment, trophic structure, and ecosystem dynamics of a large fishless desert spring : Montezuma Well, Arizona / Dean W. Blinn -- Combining ecological research and conservation : a case study in Cuatro CieĢnegas, Coahuila, Mexico / Dean A. Hendrickson ... [et. al.] -- Desert fan palm oasis / James W. Cornett -- Spring-supported vegetation along the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau : floristics, vegetation structure, and environment / John R. Spence -- Mechanisms of change in seep/spring plant communities on the Southern Colorado Plateau / Vicky J. Meretsky -- Biodiversity and productivity at an undisturbed spring in comparison with adjacent grazed riparian and upland habitats / Bianca S. Perla and Lawrence E. Stevens -- Plant diversity influenced by indigenous management of freshwater springs : flora of Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Historic and prehistoric ethnobiology of desert springs / Amadeo M. Rea -- Vegetation dynamics of great basin springs : potential effects of groundwater withdrawal / Duncan T. Patten, Leigh Rouse, and Juliet Stromberg -- Knowles Canyon hanging garden, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, eight years after burning : changes in vegetation and soil biota / Tim B. Graham -- Between the cracks : water law and springs conservation in Arizona / Nancy Nelson -- Every last drop : future springs ecosystem ecology and management / Lawrence E. Stevens.
Series:
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
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