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

Riparian

  • Abernethy, B. , & Rutherfurd, I. D. (1998). Where along a river's length will vegetation most effectively stabilise stream banks? Geomorphology, 23, 55-75.

  • Amlin, N. A., & Rood, S. B. (2001). Inundation tolerances of riparian willows and cottonwoods. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37, 1709-1720.

  • Amlin, N.M. and S.B. Rood. 2002.Comparative tolerances of riparian willows and cottonwoods to water-table decline. Wetlands 22:338-346.

  • Anderson, B.W., P.E. Russell, and R.D. Ohmart. 2004. Riparian revegetation: an account of two decades of experience in the arid southwest. Avvar Books, Blythe, CA.

  • Apple, L. L. (1985). Riparian Habitat Restoration and Beavers. (USDA Forest Service General Tech. Rep. RM-120). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, USFS.

  • Asplund, K. K. and M. T. Gooch. 1988. Geomorphology and the distributional ecology of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) in a desert riparian canyon. Desert Plants 9 (1): 17-27.

  • Auble, G., Friedman, J., Scott, M., & Shafroth, P. (1998) Gradient Models Predicting Changes in Riparian Vegetation from Altered Streamflow [Web Page].
    http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/projects/gradient_models_streamflow.html.

  • Auble, G. T., Friedman, J. M., & Scott, M. L. (1994). Relating riparian vegetation to present and future streamflows. Ecological Applications, 4, 544-554.

  • Bagstad, K.J., Stromberg, J.C. and S.J. Lite. In Press. Response of herbaceous riparian plants to rain and flooding on the San Pedro River, Arizona. Wetlands.

  • Baker, M.B., Jr., P.F. Ffolliott, L.R. DeBano, and D.G. Neary. 2004. Riparian areas of the southwestern United States: hydrology, ecology, and management. Lewis Publishers.

  • Beauchamp, V.B. 2004. Effects of flow regulation on a Sonoran riparian ecosystem, Verde River, Arizona. PhD Dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

  • Bendix, J. and C.R. Hupp. 2000. Hydrological and geomorphological impacts on riparian plant communities. Hydrological Processes 14:2977-2990.

  • Boles, P. H., & Dick-Peddle, W. A. (1983). Woody riparian vegetation patterns on a segment of the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist, 28, 81-87.

  • Braatne, J.H. S.B. Rood and P.H. Heilman. 1996. Life history, ecology, and conservation of riparian cottonwoods in North America. Pages 57-85 in R.F. Stettler, H.D. Bradshaw, Jr., P.E. Heilman, and T.M. Hinckley, editors. Biology of Populus and its implications for management and conservation. NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

  • Bragg, O. M., Hulme, P. D., Ingram, H. A. P., Johnson, J. P., & Wilson, A. I. A. (1994). A maximum-minimum recorder for shallow water tables, developed for ecohydrological studies on mires. Journal of Applied Ecology, 31, 589-592.

  • Bren, L. J. (1993). Riparian zone, stream and floodplain issues: A review. Journal of Hydrology, 150, 277-299.

  • Campbell, C. J., & Green, W. (1968). Perpetual succession of stream-channel vegetation in a semiarid region. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science, 5, 86-98.

  • Cooper, D. J. (1993). Sustaining and restoring western wetland and riparian ecosystems threatened by or affected by water development projects. (Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-247). Fort Collins, CO: USDA Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

  • Cooper, D.J., D.M. Merritt, D.C. Andersen, and R.A. Chimner. 1999. Factors controlling the establishment of Fremont cottonwood seedlings on the upper Green River, USA. Regulated Rivers-Research & Management 15:419-440.

  • Drezner, T.D., P.L. Fall, and J.C. Stromberg. 2001. Plant distribution and dispersal mechanisms at the Hassayampa River Preserve, Arizona, USA. Global Ecology & Biogeography 10:205-212.

  • Dykaar, B.B. and P.J. Wigington. 2000. Floodplain formation and cottonwood colonization patterns on the Willamette River, Oregon, USA. Environmental Management 25:87-104.

  • Everitt, B. L. (1968). Use of the Cottonwood in an Investigation of the Recent History of a Floodplain. American Journal of Science, 266, 417-439.

  • Everitt, B. L. 1995. Hydrologic factors in regeneration of Fremont cottonwood along the Fremont River, Utah. Geophysical Monograph 89:197-208.

  • Everitt, B.L., 1979, Fluvial adjustments to the spread of tamarisk in the Colorado Plateau region: discussion: Geological Society of America bulletin, Part I, v. 90, p. 1183.

  • Fenner, P., Brady, W. W., & Patton, D. R. (1984). Observations on seeds and seedlings of Fremont cottonwood. Desert Plants, 6, 55-58.

  • Fenner, P., W. W. Brady, and D. R. Patton. 1985. Effects of regulated water flows on regeneration of Fremont cottonwood. Journal of Range Management 38 : 135-138.

  • Franz, E. H., & Bazzaz, F. A. (1977). Simulation of vegetation response to modified hydrologic regimes: A probabilistic model based on niche differentiation in a floodplain forest. Ecology, 58(1), 176-183.

  • Friedman, J.M. and V.J. Lee. 2002. Extreme floods, channel change, and riparian forests along ephemeral streams. Ecological Monographs 72:409-425.

  • Friedman, J.M., W.R. Osterkamp, and W.M. Lewis. 1996. The role of vegetation and bed-level fluctuations in the process of channel narrowing. Geomorphology 14:341-351.

  • Galuszka, D.A. and T.E. Kolb. 2002. Tree growth and regeneration response to climate and stream flow in a species-rich southwestern riparian forest. Western North American Naturalist 62:266-279.

  • Gladwin, D.N. and J.E. Roelle. 1998. Survival of plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera) and saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima) seedlings in response to flooding. Wetlands 18:669-674.

  • Graf, W.L., 1978, Fluvial adjustments to the spread of tamarisk in the Colorado Plateau region: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 89, p. 1491-1501.

  • Graf, W.L., 1982, Tamarisk and river-channel management: Environmental Management, v. 6, p. 283-296.

  • Groeneveld, D. P., & Griepentrog, T. E. (1985). Interdependence of Groundwater, Riparian Vegetation, and Streambank Stability: A Case Study. (USDA Forest Service General Tech. Rep. RM-120). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, USFS.

  • Gurnell, A. M. (1995). Vegetation along river corridors: Hydrogeomorphological interactions. in A. Gurnell & G. Petts (Eds.), Changing River Channels (pp. 239-259). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

  • Griffin, E. R., and J. D. Smith. 2004. Floodplain stabilization of woody riparian vegetation during an extreme flood. Water Science and Application 8:153-169.

  • Hadley, R.F., 1961, Influence of riparian vegetation on channel shape, northeastern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 424C, p. 30-31.

  • Harner, M.J. and J.A. Stanford. 2003. Differences in cottonwood growth between a losing and a gaining reach of an alluvial floodplain. Ecology 84:1453-1458.

  • Hastings, J.R., 1959, Vegetation change and arroyo cutting in southeastern Arizona: Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science, v. 1, p. 60-67.

  • Heede, B. H. (1985). Interactions Between Streamside Vegetation and Stream Dynamics. (USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-120). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, USFS.

  • Horton, J. L., & Clark, J. L. (2001). Water table decline alters growth and survival of Salix gooddingi and Tamarix chinensis seedlings. Forest Ecology and Management, 140, 239-247.

  • Horton, J.L., S.C. Hart, and T.E. Kolb. 2003. Physiological condition and water source use of Sonoran Desert riparian trees at the Bill Williams River, Arizona, USA. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 39:69-82.

  • Horton, J.L., T.E. Kolb, and S.C. Hart. 2001. Physiological response to groundwater depth varies among species and with river flow regulation. Ecological Applications 11:1046-1059.

  • Horton, J.L., T.E. Kolb, and S.C. Hart. 2001. Responses of riparian trees to interannual variation in ground water depth in a semi-arid river basin. Plant Cell and Environment 24:293-304.

  • Hughes, F. M. R. (1994). Environmental Change, Disturbance and Regeneration in Semi-Arid Floodplain Forests. In A. C. Millington & K. Pye (Ed.), Environmental Change in Drylands (pp. 321-345). New York: Wiley & Sons.

  • Hughes, F.M.R. 1997. Floodplain biogeomorphology. Progress in Physical Geography 21:501-529.

  • Hupp, C. R., & Simon, A. (1991). Bank Accretion and the Development of Vegetated Depositional Surfaces Along Modified Alluvial Channels. Geomorphology, 4, 111-124.

  • Hupp, C.R. and Osterkamp, W.R. (1996). Riparian Vegetation and Fluvial Geomorphic Processes. Geomorphology, 14: 277-295.

  • Johnson, W.C. 2000. Tree recruitment and survival in rivers: influence of hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes 14:3051-3074.

  • Johnson, W.C. 2002. Riparian vegetation diversity along regulated rivers: contribution of novel and relict habitat. Freshwater Biology 47:749-759.

  • Kalischuk, A.R., S.B. Rood, and J.M. Mahoney. 2001. Environmental influences on seedling growth of cottonwood species following a major flood. Forest Ecology and Management 144:75-89.

  • Karrenberg, S., P.J. Edwards, and J. Kollmann. 2002. The life history of Salicaceae living in the active zone of floodplains. Freshwater Biology 47:733-748.

  • Kranjcec, J., J.M. Mahoney, and S.B. Rood. 1998. The responses of three riparian cottonwood species to water table decline. Forest Ecology and Management 110:77-87.

  • Levine, C.M. and J.C. Stromberg. 2002. Effects of flooding on native and exotic plant seedlings: implications for restoring south-western riparian forests by manipulating water and sediment flows. Journal of Arid Environments 49:111-131.

  • Lite, S.J. 2003. San Pedro River riparian vegetation across water availability and flood disturbance gradients. PhD Dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

  • Lite, S.J. and J.C. Stromberg. 2005. Ground-water and surface water thresholds for maintaining Populus-Salix forests, San Pedro River, Arizona. Biological Conservation. In Press.

  • Lytle, D. A. , & Merritt, D. M. (2004). Hydrologic regimes and riparian forests: A structured population model for cottonwood. Ecology, 85, 2493-2503.

  • Lytle, D.A. and N.L. Poff. 2004. Adaptation to natural flow regimes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:94-100.

  • Mahoney, J. M., & Rood, S. B. (1991). A device for studying the influence of declining water table on poplar growth and survival. Tree Physiology, 8, 305-314.

  • Mahoney, J. M., & Rood, S. B. (1992). Response of a hybrid poplar to water table decline in different substrates. Forest Ecology and Management, 54, 141-156.

  • Mahoney, J. M., & Rood, S. B. (1998). Streamflow requirements for cottonwood seedling recruitment--An integrative model. Wetlands, 18, 634-645.

  • Merritt, D.M. and D.J. Cooper. 2000. Riparian vegetation and channel change in response to river regulation: A comparative study of regulated and unregulated streams in the Green River Basin, USA. Regulated Rivers-Research & Management 16:543-564.

  • Moglen, G. E., Eltahir, E. A. B., & Bras, R. L. (1998). On the sensitivity of drainage density to climate change. Water Resources Research, 34(4), 855-862.

  • Nilsson, C. and M. Svedmark. 2002. Basic principles and ecological consequences of changing water regimes: Riparian plant communities. Environmental Management 30:468-480.

  • Ohmart, R.D. and B.W. Anderson. 1982. North American desert riparian ecosystems. Pages 433-479 in G.L. Bender, editor, Reference Handbook on the deserts of North America. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA.

  • Patten, D. T. (1998). Riparian ecosystems of semi-arid North America: Diversity and human impacts. Wetlands, 18, 498-512.

  • Pettit, N.E., R.H. Forend, and R.H. Davies. 2001. Identifying the natural flow regime and the relationship with riparian vegetation for two contrasting Western Australian rivers. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 17:201-215.

  • Platts, W. S., Gebhardt, K. A., & Jackson, W. L. (1985). The Effects of Large Storm Events on Basin-Range Riparian Stream Habitats. (USDA Forest Service General Tech. Rep. RM-120). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, USFS.

  • Renard, K.G., Keppel, R.V., Hickey, J.J., and Wallace, D.E. 1964. Performance of local aquifers as influenced by stream transmission losses and riparian vegetation: Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, v. 7, p. 471-474

  • Richter, H. E. (1992). Development of a Conceptual Model for Floodplain Restoration in a Desert Riparian System. Arid Lands Newsletter, 32(Spring/Summer), 13-17.

  • Richter, B.D. and H.E. Richter. 2000. Prescribing flood regimes to sustain riparian ecosystems along meandering rivers. Conservation Biology 14:1467-1478.

  • 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.

  • Rood, S.B., J.H. Braatne, and F.M.R. Hughes. 2003. Ecophysiology of riparian cottonwoods: stream flow dependency, water relations and restoration. Tree Physiology 23:1113-1124.

  • Rood, S.B., C.R. Gourley, E.M. Ammon, L.G. Heki, J.R. Klotz, M.L. Morrison, D. Mosley, G.G. Scoppettone, S. Swanson, and P.L. Wagner. 2003. Flows for floodplain forests: a successful riparian restoration. BioScience 53:647-656.

  • Scott, M. L. , Friedman, J. M., & Auble, G. T. (1996). Fluvial processes and the establishment of bottomland trees. Geomorphology, 14, 327-339.

  • Scott, M. L., P. B. Shafroth, and G. T. Auble. 1999. Responses of riparian cottonwoods to alluvial water table declines. Environmental Management 23 (3): 347-358.

  • Scott, M.L., Lines, G.C., and Auble, G.T. 2000. Channel incision and patterns of cottonwood stress and mortality along the Mojave River, California: Journal of Arid Environments, v. 44, p. 399-414.

  • Shafroth, P.B., J.C. Stromberg, and D.T. Patten. 2000. Woody riparian vegetation response to different alluvial water table regimes. Western North American Naturalist 60:66-76.

  • Shafroth, P.B., J.C. Stromberg, and D.T. Patten. 2002. Riparian vegetation response to altered disturbance and stress regimes. Ecological Applications 12:107-123.

  • Sher, A.A., D.L. Marshall, and S.A. Gilbert. 2000. Competition between native Populus deltoids and invasive Tamarix ramosissima and the implications of reestablishing flooding disturbance. Conservation Biology 14:1744-1754.

  • Sher, A.A. and D.L. Marshall, DL. 2003. Seedling competition between native Populus deltoides (Salicaceae) and exotic Tamarix ramosissima (Tamaricaceae) across water regimes and substrate types American. Journal of Botany 90:413-422.

  • Sher, A.A., D.L. Marshall, and J.P. Taylor. 2002. Establishment patterns of native Populus and Salix in the presence of invasive nonnative Tamarix. Ecological Applications 12:760-772.

  • Siegel, R. S., & Brock, J. H. (1990). Germination Requirements of Key Southwestern Woody Riparian Species. Desert Plants, 10(1), 3-33.

  • Sigafoos, R. S. (1964). Botanical Evidence of Floods and Flood-Plain Deposition. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 485-A). Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

  • Simon, A., S. J. Bennett, and V. S. Neary. 2004. Riparian vegetation and fluvial geomorphology; problems and opportunities. Water Science and Application 8:282.

  • Snyder, K.A., and D.G. Williams. 2000. Water sources used by riparian trees varies among stream types on the San Pedro River. Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 105:227-240.

  • Sorenson, S. K., Dileanis, P. D., & Branson, F. A. (1991). Soil Water and Vegetation Responses to Precipitation and Changes in Depth to Ground Water in Owens Valley, California. (US Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2370). Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office.

  • Stromberg, J. C. (1993). Instream flow models for mixed deciduous riparian vegetation within a semiarid region. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management, 8, 225-235.

  • Stromberg, J. 1998. Dynamics of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis) populations along the San Pedro River, Arizona. Journal of Arid Environments 40:133-155.

  • Stromberg, J. C. (2001). Biotic integrity of Platanus wrightii riparian forests in Arizona: First approximation. Forest Ecology and Management, 142, 251-266.

  • Stromberg, J. C., & Patten, D. T. (1996). Instream flow and cottonwood growth in the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California, USA. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management, 12, 1-12.

  • Stromberg, J. C., Patten, D. T., & Richter, B. D. (1991). Flood Flows and Dynamics of Sonoran Riparian Forests. Rivers, 2(3), 221-235.

  • Stromberg, J.C. 2001. Restoration of riparian vegetation in the south-western United States: importance of flow regimes and fluvial dynamism. Journal of Arid Environments 49:17-34.

  • Stromberg, J.C., J. Fry, and D.T. Patten, DT. 1997. Marsh development after large floods in an alluvial, arid-land river. Wetlands 17:292-300.

  • Stromberg, J. C., R. Tiller, and B. Richter. 1996. Effects of groundwater decline on riparian vegetation of semiarid regions: the San Pedro, Arizona. Ecological Applications 6:113-131.

  • Stromberg, J. C. 1993. Instream flow models for mixed deciduous riparian vegetation within a semiarid region. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management. 8:225-235.

  • Stromberg, J. C., S. D. Wilkins, and J. A. Tress. 1993. Vegetation-hydrology models: implications for management of Prosopis velutina (velvet mesquite) riparian ecosystems. Ecological applications. 3: 307-314.

  • Stromberg, J. C. and D. T. Patten. 1992. Mortality and age of black cottonwood stands along diverted and undiverted streams in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Madrono. 39: 205-223.

  • Stromberg, J. C., D. T. Patten, and B. D. Richter. 1991. Flood flows and dynamics of Sonoran riparian forests. Rivers. 2: 221-235.

  • Stromberg, J. C. and D. T. Patten. 1990. Riparian vegetation instream flow requirements: a case study from a diverted stream in the eastern Sierra Nevada, CAlifornia. Environmental Management. 14: 185-194.

  • Stromberg, J. C. and D. T. Patten. 1991. Instream flow requirements for cottonwoods at Bishop Creek, Inyo County, California. Rivers. 2: 1-11.

  • Stromberg, J. C., J. A. Tress, S. D. Wilkins and S. D. Clark. 1992. Response of velvet mesquite to groundwater decline. Journal of Arid Environments. 23: 45-58.

  • Stromberg, J.C, VB Beauchamp, MD Dixon, SJ Lite and C. Paradzick. Importance of low-flow and high-flow characteristics to restoration of riparian vegetation along rivers in arid south-western United States. Freshwater Biology (2007) 52, 651-679.

  • Tallent-Halsell, N.G. and L.R. Walker. 2002. Responses of Salix gooddingii and Tamarix ramosissima to flooding. Wetlands 22:776-785.

  • Tabacchi, E., & Tabacchi, A.-M. P. (2001). Functional significance of species composition in riparian plan communities. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37, 1629-1637.

  • Taylor, J. P., D. B. Wester, and L. M. Smith. 1999. Soil disturbance, flood management, and riparian woody plant establishment in the Rio Grande floodplain. Wetlands 19: 372-382.

  • Trimble, S. W. 2004. Effects of riparian vegetation on stream channel stability and sediment budgets. Water Science and Application 8:1-10.

  • Trimble, S.W., 1997, Stream channel erosion and change resulting from riparian forests: Geology, v. 25, p. 467-469.

  • Wallerstein, N.P. and Thorne, C.R. (2004). Influence of large woody debris on morphological evolution of incised, sand-bed channels. Geomorphology, 57: 53-73.

  • Walsh, K., Bowen, R., & Skibitzke, H. Aerial Photograph Interpretation of Riparian Vegetation/Geomorphology Relations on Bishop Creek. in Sierran Riparian Conference Tempe, AZ.

  • Whiteman, KE. 2006. Distribution of salt cedar (Tamarix spp. L) along an unregulated river in South-western New Mexico, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 64: 364-368.