This study suggests that rather than fixed-width guidelines for riparian set-asides, to support cost-efficient maintenance of riparian forest, local site conditions should be used as guide for planning, maintenance and engineering of riparian ecotones.
Where water availability is greater (riparian settings or shallow water tables), invading tree water-use can reach 1.5 2.0 times that of the same species in a dryland setting.
Finally, Oldowan hominin activities in a riparian forest setting are suggested by paleoenvironmental evidence from the Koobi Fora Formation in the Turkana basin, Kenya, at ∼2.0 Ma [38].
Boxelder, Fremont cottonwood, maple, and willow dominate riparian plant communities.
Although empirically-derived thresholds that predict species' persistence exist for some riparian plant species [26], most aquatic and riparian-dependent species in our study area lack such thresholds.
Documented responses of riparian plant species to drought conditions vary.
2. We conducted a literature survey and meta-analysis to examine the effects of an increase in summer drought on: (i) riparian plant biomass; (ii) riparian seedling survival and (iii) riparian plant species composition and richness.
To quantify how riparian vegetation responds to summer drought, we addressed the following questions: What is the relationship between duration of drought and riparian plant biomass?
The competitive superiority of the riparian plant species prevents the xeric species from invading the narrow riparian zone along the river banks.
Farmers and cattle ranchers throughout Brazil are legally required to set-aside riparian forest strips within their landholdings, but recent legislative changes have relaxed the minimum mandatory conditions of these riparian forests.
In the present study riparian patches encroach into the river channel, occupy more area and are larger at the two reservoir rivers than at the run-of-river setting.
