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Gila-San Francisco Coordinating Committee - Technical Subcommittee
Reference Literature - Relevant Desert Southwest

Hydrology

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  • Arthington, A.H., and B.J. Pusey. 2003. Flow restoration and protection in Australian rivers. River Research and Applications 19:377-395.

  • Baker, Malchus B. Jr. 1987. "The Diversity in Streamflow Response from Upland Basins in Arizona." pp.211-215 in Charles A. Troendle, Merrill R. Kaufmann, R.H. Hamre and Robert P. Winokur (tech. coords.) Management of Subalpine Forest: Building on 50 Years of Research. Proceedings of a Technical Conference. Silver City, CO, July 6-9. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-149, Ft. Collins, CO.

  • Bencala, Kenneth E., David B. Hamilton, and James H. Petersen. 2006. Science for managing riverine ecosystems: Actions for the USGS identified in the workshop "Analysis of flow and habitat for instream aquatic communities." USGS Open File Report 2006-1256.

  • Berrens, R., Ganderton, P., & Silva, C. L. (1996). Valuing the protection of minimum instream flows in New Mexico. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 21(2), 294-309.

  • Brizga, S.O. 1998. Methods addressing flow requirements for geomorphological purposes. Pages 8-46 in A.H. Arthington, and J.M. Zalucki, editors, Comparative evaluation of environmental flow assessment techniques: review of methods. LWRRDC Occasional Paper 27/98. 141 pp.

  • Bull, W. B. 1979. Threshold of critical power in streams. Geological Society of America Bulletin 90:I 453-I 464.

  • Bull, W. B. 1997. Discontinuous ephemeral streams. Geomorphology 19:227-276.

  • Burn, D. H., & Hag Elnur, M. A. (2002). Detection of hydrologic trends and variability. Journal of Hydrology, 255, 107-122.

  • Coates, D. R. (1990). The relation of subsurface water to downslope movement and failure. (Special Paper 252: Groundwater Geomorphology; The Role of Subsurface Water in Earth-Surface Processes and Landforms). Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.

  • Cooke, R.U., and Reeves, R.W., 1976, Arroyos and environmental change in the American Southwest: London, England, Oxford University Press, 213 p.

  • Everitt, B. L. (1995). Hydrologic Factors in Regeneration of Fremont Cottonwood Along the Fremont River, Utah (Natural and Anthropogenic Influences in Fluvial Geomorphology: Geophysical Monograph 89). American Geophysical Union.

  • Farquharson, F. A. K., Meigh, J. R., & Sutcliffe, J. V. (1992). Regional flood frequency analysis in arid and semi-arid areas. Journal of Hydrology, 138, 487-501.

  • Fernald, A. G., & Guldan, S. J. (2006). Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions Between Irrigation Ditches, Alluvial Aquifers, and Streams. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 14, 79-89.

  • Flerchinger, G. N., Shang, S., & Finnie, J. I. (1996). Simulating Three-Dimensional Ground Water Response in a Small Mountainous Watershed. Water Resources Bulletin, 32(5), 1081-1088.

  • Gunduz, O., & Aral, M. M. (2005). River networks and groundwater flow: a simultaneous solution of a coupled system. Journal of Hydrology, 301, 216-234.

  • Graf, W.L. Downstream hydrologic and geomorphic effects of large dams on American rivers. Geomorphology 79(2006): 336-360.

  • Halford, K. J., & Mayer, G. C. (2000). Problems Associated with Estimating Ground Water Discharge and Recharge from Stream-Discharge Records. Ground Water, 38(3), 331-342.

  • Hawkins, D. B., & Stephens, D. B. (1983). Ground-Water Modeling in a Southwestern Alluvial Basin. Ground Water, 21(6), 733-740.

  • Heath, R. C. (1987). Basic Ground-Water Hydrology. (Water-Supply Paper 2220). Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office.

  • Hill, M., W.S. Platts, and R.L. Beschta. 1991. Ecological and geomorphological concepts for instream and out-of-channel flow requirements. Rivers 2:198-210.

  • Hynes, H. B. N. (1983). Groundwater and stream ecology. Hydrobiologia, 100, 93-99.

  • Izbicki, J.A., Radyk, J., and Michel, R.L., 2000, Water movement through a thick unsaturated zone underlying an intermittent stream in the western Mojave Desert, southern California, USA: Journal of Hydrology, v. 238, p. 194-217.

  • Jolly, I. D. (1996). The effects of river management on the hydrology and hydroecology and arid and semi-arid floodplains. M. G. Anderson, D. Walling, & P. Bates (Eds.), Floodplain processes (pp. 577-610). Chichester: Wiley.

  • Keller, E. A., & Kondolf, G. M. (1990). Groundwater and fluvial processes; Selected observations. (Special Paper 252: Groundwater Geomorphology; The Role of Subsurface Water in Earth-Surface Processes and Landforms). Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.

  • Kershner, J. L., & Snider, W. M. (1992). Importance of a Habitat-Level Classification System to Design Instream Flow Studies. In P. J. Boon (Ed.), River Conservation and Management (pp. 179-193). New York: Wiley & Sons.

  • King, J., C. Brown, and H. Sabet. 2003. A scenario-based holistic approach to environmental flow assessments for rivers. River Research and Applications 19:619-639

  • Kondolf, G. M., Maloney, L. M., & Williams, J. G. (1987). Effects of bank storage and well pumping on base flow, Carmel River, Monterey County, California. Journal of Hydrology, 91, 351-369.

  • Lake, P. S. (2003). Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters. Freshwater Biology, 48, 1161-1172.

  • Lee, W.T., 1904, The underground waters of Gila Valley, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply and Irrigation Paper No. 104, Series 0, Underground Waters 25, 71 p.

  • Maddock, I. P., Petts, G. E., Evans, E. C., & Greenwood, M. T. (1995). Assessing River-Aquifer Interactions within the Hyporheic Zone. In A.G. Brown (Ed.), Geomorphology and Groundwater (pp. 53-74). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

  • McKinstry, M. C., Caffrey, P., & Anderson, S. H. (2001). The importance of beaver to wetland habitats and waterfowl in Wyoming. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37, 1571-1577.

  • Molles Jr., M. C., Dahm, C. N., & Crocker, M. T. (1992). Climatic Variability and Streams and Rivers in Semi-Arid Regions. In R. Roberts & M. Bothwell (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems in Semi-Arid Regions: Implications for Resource Management. (N.H.R.I. Symposium Series : Vol. 7, Environment Canada, Saskatoon.) N.H.R.I.

  • Moody, Tom, Mark Wirtanene, and Stephanie N. Yard. 2003. Regional Relationships for Bankfull Stage in Natural Channels. Arid SW Regional Report 2003.

  • Petts, G. E. 1987. Time-scales for ecological change in regulated rivers. Pages 257-266 in J. F. Craig and J. B. Kemper (eds.) Regulated Streams: Advances in Ecology. Plenum Press, New York, NY.

  • Petts, G. E., & Maddock, I. (1994). Flow Allocation for In-River Needs. In P. Calow & G.E. Petts (Eds.), The Rivers Handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 289-307). London: Blackwell Scientific.

  • Pickup, G., & Warner, R. F. (1976). Effects of hydrologic regime on magnitude and frequency of dominant discharge. Journal of Hydrology, 29, 51-75.

  • Poff, N. L. (1996). A hydrogeography of unregulated streams in the United States and an examination of scale-dependence in some hydrological descriptors. Freshwater Biology, 36, 71-91.

  • Poff, N. L., Allan, J. D., Bain, M. B., Karr, J. R., Prestegaard, K. L., Richter, B. D., Sparks, R. E., & Stromberg, J. C. (1997). The Natural Flow Regime: A Paradigm for River Conservation and Restoration. BioScience, 47, 769-784.

  • Puckeridge, J.T., K.F. Walker, and J.F. Costelloe. 2000. Hydrological persistence and the ecology of dryland rivers. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 16:385-402.

  • Richards, K. S., Hughes, F. M. R., El-Hames, A. S., Harris, T., Pautou, G., Peiry, J. L., & Girel, J. (1996). Integrated Field, Laboratory and Numerical Investigations of Hydrological Influences on the Establishment of Riparian Tree Species. In M. G. Anderson, D. Walling, & P. Bates (Eds.), Floodplain processes (pp. 611-635). Chichester: Wiley.

  • Richter, B.D., J.V. Baumgartner, J. Powell, and D.P. Braun. 1996. A method for assessing hydrologic alteration within ecosystems. Conservation Biology 10:1163-1174.

  • Richter, B.D., J.V. Baumgartner, R. Wigington, and D.P. Braun. 1997. How much water does a river need? Freshwater Biology 37:231-249.

  • Richter, B.D., R. Mathews, D.L. Harrison, and R. Wigington. 2003. Ecologically sustainable water management: managing river flows for ecological integrity. Ecological Applications 13:206-224.

  • Richter, B. D., & Powell, J. (1996). Simple Hydrologic Models for Use in Floodplain Research. Natural Areas Journal, 16(4), 362-366.

  • Riggs, H. C., & Harvey, K. D. (1990). Temporal and spatial variability of streamflow. In M.G. Wolman & H.C. Riggs (Eds.), The Geology of North America (Vol. O-1, Surface Water Hydrology, pp. 81-96). Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.

  • Rogers, J. D., & Armbruster, J. T. (1990). Low flows and hydrologic droughts. In M.G. Wolman & H.C. Riggs (Eds.), The Geology of North America (Vol. O-1, Surface Water Hydrology, pp. 121-130). Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America.

  • Schmidt, Larry J., and John P. Potyondy. May 2004. Quantifying Channel Maintenance Instream Flows: An Approach for Gravel-Bed Streams in the Western United States. USDA General Technical Report RMRS-GRT-128.

  • Smythe Scientific Software and The Nature Conservancy. (2001). Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration.

  • Stewardson, M.J., and C.J. Gippell. 2003. Incorporating flow variability into environmental flow regimes using the flow events method. River Research and Applications 19:459-472.

  • Tharme, R.E., 2003. A global perspective on environmental flow assessment: emerging trends in development and application of environmental flow methodologies for rivers. River Research and Applications: 9: 397–441 (2003)

  • Trush, W.J., S.M. McBain, and L.B. Leopold. 2000. Attributes of an alluvial river and their relation to water policy and management. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97:11858-11863.

  • US Geological Survey. 2006. Defining Ecosystem Flow Requirements for the Bill Williams River, Arizona. Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office.

  • Walker, K. F., Sheldon, F., & Puckridge, J. T. (1995). A Perspective on Dryland River Ecosystems. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management, 11, 85-104.

  • Waltemeyer, S.D., 1986, Techniques for estimating flood-flow frequency for unregulated streams in New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4104, xx p.

  • Waltemeyer, S. D., 1996, Analysis of the magnitude and frequency of peak discharge and maximum observed peak discharge in New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4112, xx p.

  • Waltemeyer, S.D., 2002, Analysis of the magnitude and frequency of the 4-day annual low flow and regression equations for estimating the 4-day, 3-year low-flow frequency at ungaged sites on unregulated streams in New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4271, xx p.

  • Waltemeyer, S.D., 2001, Relations for estimating unit-hydrograph parameters in New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4154, xx p.

  • Ward, J. V., & Stanford, J. A. (1993). Research needs in regulated river ecology. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management, 8, 205-209.

  • Ward, J.V., Tockner, K., Uehlinger, U. and Malard, F. (2001). Understanding natural patterns and processes in river corridors as the basis for effective river restoration. Regulated Rivers-Research and Management, 17: 311.

  • Whiting, P. J. (1998). Bank Storage and Its Influence on Streamflow. Fort Collins, CO: Stream Systems Technology Center, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

  • Whiting, P.J. 2002. Streamflow necessary for environmental maintenance. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 30:181-206.

  • Wilcox, C., & Huertos, M. L. (2005). A simple, rapid method for mapping bathymetry of small wetland basins. Journal of Hydrology, 301, 29-36.

  • Woessner, W. W. (2000). Stream and Fluvial Plain Ground Water Interactions: Rescaling Hydrogeologic Thought. Ground Water, 38(3), 423-429.

  • Woo, M., & Thorne, R. (2003). Comment on 'Detection of hydrologic trends and variability' by Burn, D. H. and Hag Elnur, M. A., 2002. Journal of Hydrology 255, 107-122. Journal of Hydrology, 277, 150-160.

  • Woodbury, A., Render, F., & Ulrych, T. (1995). Practical probabilistic ground-water modeling. Ground Water, 33(4), 532-538.