The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce. |
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The two riparian populations occupy mesic habitats where prey is abundant and favorable thermal conditions allow for extended foraging periods. |
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The redevelopment will restore prairie and riparian corridors within new city parks and open space. |
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The combination of owl, murrelet, and riparian protection will eventually provide at least 520,000 acres of mature forest habitat. |
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Scattered throughout the region are smaller areas of riparian, holophytic, and other vegetation types adapted to specific site conditions. |
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Because they are terrible swimmers, they must cling to riparian roots in order not to be washed away. |
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We can get large softwoods out in the riparian zones or in mixed stands that you cannot reach with a harvester and a porter. |
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Between these extremes we collected in low-mid elevation riparian areas and vernally moist meadows. |
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A riparian zone is a strip of land extending on average 10-30m from a designated river. |
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Equally questionable is the obverse of the Harmon doctrine, the principle of absolute territorial integrity or riparian rights. |
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A further 30 species were primarily confined to freshwater riparian areas distributed throughout the park. |
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The two study sites were chosen to represent physiographically different types of riparian landscape. |
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Since riparian areas are often wetter than the surrounding fields, they are most susceptible to trampling, soil compaction, and pugging. |
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Therefore the sharing of the Nile waters by the riparian states especially of the Nile Basin does not necessarily drastically affect Egypt. |
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There is a great deal of interest in research on riparian management and water quality in the western United States. |
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The guide provides instructions on riparian buffer installation and maintenance for farmers and landowners. |
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Only 3 percent of his 16,500 acres are riparian, but they make up 35 percent of his total production. |
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Other studies of riparian breeding birds in which juveniles molt on the breeding grounds have not examined that possibility. |
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The presence of the recharge zone and its particular location within the riparian states raises critical issues of control. |
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If riparian vegetation is left undisturbed, organic matter accumulates in the soil and enhances microbial activity. |
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Together, the two funding sources should ensure that significant portions of Green River riparian habitats are restored and protected. |
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However, Mesozoic examples of insect wood boring occur in petrifactions, many of which were deposited in drier, more riparian habitats. |
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Floodplains supported softwood forests and bountiful warm-season riparian food resources such as fish and mussels. |
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Adequate flow in our rivers is necessary for the maintenance of aquatic life, to prevent saline water intrusion and to protect riparian rights. |
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Blacktail Deer Creek is a third-order montane stream with a narrow, well-defined riparian area bounded by sagebrush and open forest uplands. |
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Northern ghost bats like to stay in humid habitats such as tropical and riparian rainforests. |
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Listening carefully to the riparian symphony of birdsong, wind, and water, I begin to pick out some faint, clicky sounds. |
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Notably, poplars and other cottonwood trees need moist soil and prefer riparian zones near streams and lakes. |
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Breeding productivity for riparian associated songbirds are at levels high enough to maintain viable populations. |
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Sebastiania commersoniana occurs in south and southeastern Brazil in riparian or gallery forests. |
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In most of eastern Canada, water use is governed by modified riparian rights. |
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After conversion costs are factored into the analysis, there remains a positive benefit to the farm from converting riparian area to cropland. |
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Green ash, silver maple, eastern white cedar, nannyberry, red osier dogwood and black ash had the highest survival rates in riparian areas. |
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When riparian cover is lacking, adults are vulnerable to raptors, mustelids and other predators. |
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Placement in the riparian zone is not necessary and often results in increased numbers of blowflies. |
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In the United States, water law in the Great Lakes region is moving slowly from common law of riparian rights to regulated riparianism. |
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With some refinement, this technique holds out hope of being able to safeguard some island and riparian habitat before too long. |
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They include sensitive riparian areas, unimproved farmland and woodland, and their purpose is to allow for the restoration of natural processes. |
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Concentration of bat activity in riparian habitats over an elevational gradient. |
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The vegetation covers 129 ha as a riparian ecotone made up primarily of low scrubland, followed by high scrubland up to 20 m wide. |
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Although some preliminary work was done on river geomorphology and riparian vegetation, it was not sufficient to make IFN recommendations. |
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The ice breakup can pull up and crush riparian vegetation, depending on the slope of the bank. |
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The convention establishing VBA is being ratified by the Volta Basin riparian countries. |
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The riparian zone constitutes the ultimate barrier for intercepting some of these dangerous substances. |
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The researchers demonstrated that to build their burrows, muskrats clearly prefer herbaceous riparian buffers to forested buffers. |
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The first pioneer to reach the riparian tributary where Kansas City now shimmers was, in fact, on the lam himself. |
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Site connectivity and riparian ecotone functions must therefore be restored. |
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Small linear woodlands such as those in treed fencerows and wooded riparian areas surrounding wetlands are particularly susceptible. |
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It will provide protection for 565 ha of peatland, swamps, peaty banks, scrubland and riparian forest around Lake Saint-Paul. |
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In addition, trotlines are dropped on the bottom in riparian grass beds in shallow areas that are not occupied by striped pass. |
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They claim that people with property bordering the river should have been in court, and if they weren't, they forfeited their riparian rights. |
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Under riparian rights, the upland owner has access to the full length of his property at all points along the property. |
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The judge told them to get the floats off the lady's riparian rights, get out of there, or make compensation within six months. |
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The intricate network of western water rights, some riparian and some based on first use, is absurdly complex. |
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After all, say officials at the commission, co-operation among the riparian states, like the river itself, should flow in both directions. |
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Clearly, then, an objective for the protection of the riparian environment is desirable. |
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Given this uncertainty, riparian buffer widths of 15-30 m around the lake and the inlet and outlet streams are recommended. |
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In the case of the northern pike, new spawning habitats would be created by the submergence of riparian and terrestrial vegetation. |
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So, strictly legally, each riparian State has its own technical rules and ship's certificate. |
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Monitor, evaluate and report to all riparian parties to promote learning and build consensus. |
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Paragraphs 18 and 19 do not affect the riparian rights of the upland owners of Sliammon Lands adjacent to Submerged Lands. |
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With a large study area and limited time frame, field personnel cannot visit all of the riparian land to conduct new surveys. |
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This riparian strip will improve the lake's health and is effective in preventing blue algae. |
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Millionaires such as railroad magnate William Vanderbilt purchased land with riparian rights on the Restigouche. |
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For instance, with riparian rights, water use must be reasonable, which is open to interpretation. |
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Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields. |
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Montana lawmakers began to feel riparian water rights might not be appropriate in the arid West, and they looked to the mining states of California and Colorado for direction. |
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There is far too much open water in this island where riparian owners are private citizens for a duty of such a wide general nature to be easily imposed by the law. |
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The various groups that make up this community have organized to challenge development, protect the riparian region of the Santa Cruz River, and promote bird watching. |
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Fish and crustaceans enter this system, attracting native waterbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds, which regularly forage along the ditch's riparian banks. |
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Testing of samples of deposited sediments in the riparian zone determined that agricultural activity in the watershed has caused increased sediment deposition to the wetland. |
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With their support, we can improve and protect the stream and riparian habitats upon which the imperiled wildlife of the Green River fauna depends. |
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Since its introduction in the 1800s as a soil stabilizer and ornamental, tamarisk has gone on to infest 1.6 million acres of the West's precious riparian areas. |
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In the heart of the Olympic Park there are riparian meadows of wildflowers whose color and glory are heartbreaking. |
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For example, among many southern African peoples a complex set of beliefs exists for water, wetlands, and riparian zones. |
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Promote collaboration and partnerships with private landowners in the immediate vicinity of significant aquatic environments and wetlands in the Park, so as to encourage riparian protection. |
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Case study 3 is about constructing an urban complex of hotels and various institutes and facilities on a riparian area ashore the river Duero in the Soto of Garray in Soria. |
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From kilometre 78 up to the cutoff point at kilometre 97, the riparian vegetation is more abundant due to the presence of meanders and braided channels. |
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While they only represent a tiny proportion of the overall territory, riparian ecosystems are home to a far greater biodiversity than dry land areas. |
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The photographs of a coyote and an American black bear was recorded in Madrean evergreen woodland and deciduous riparian forest, respectively. |
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In the semi-arid high desert of the Colorado Plateau, Zunis have long known the value of healthy riparian areas, lakes, springs, and seeps. |
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Given their requirement to be adjacent to upland areas, the allocation of marine sites to support lobster pounds warrants specific requirements with respect to riparian rights. |
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Many people are unaware that by deforesting and degrading the banks of a watercourse, they are contributing to erosion and to the loss of many riparian environments that are important to species productivity and biodiversity. |
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These include such measures as avoiding work during fish spawning and nursery times, limiting the extent of bottom clean-out and minimizing the removal of riparian vegetation. |
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I spoke about streamside and riparian buffer strips, which are a bit different, but certainly any inventory on habitat, particularly broad-based things like that, would be very useful to some groups. |
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Since there's a large literature saying that streamside vegetation or riparian areas are critical to the health of aquatic habitats, we included such streamside areas. |
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With improvements in city bylaws regarding streamside riparian protection and support of stewardship centers, the various municipal governments will reduce the overall impacts on fish and fish habitat over the long term. |
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Moreover, the expansion of swamplands in the exposed riparian areas of the Rupert River will increase the potential habitat area for the southern bog lemming. |
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This subspecies thrives in cold, clean streams with abundant pool habitat and cover, containing features such as undercut banks, pool-riffle habitat and riparian vegetation. |
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Westslope Cutthroat Trout are found in a wide range of habitats but do best in cold, clean, moving water with various forms of cover such as undercut banks, pool-riffle habitat and riparian vegetation. |
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It consists primarily of swamp forest with inclusions of riparian forest and mixed-species lowland forest on terra firma islands and savannah patches. |
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Encourage the riparian communities in taking part in the management of the reserves and sanctuaries with the support of the private forester and mining sectors and of the internal and external development partners. |
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The riparian environment of the Sud River is made up of marshes, swamps, and floodplain forests containing a high level of biodiversity, including several species at risk like the Least Bittern and the false hop sedge. |
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The inherent variability associated with boreal riparian systems challenges our understanding and consequently our management of these areas across the landscape. |
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Agricultural activities are limited to the riparian forest, with swiddening of the tanjung being its distinguishing characteristic. |
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Sensible riparian zone management is also very important to protect aquatic habitat from sedimentation and other potentially negative impacts stemming from harvesting too close to watercourses, lakes, and other waterscapes. |
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Projects like riparian area management, erosion control, shelterbelt establishment, consultative services for riparian health may qualify for assistance. |
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These analyses pinpointed certain properties of the riparian belt, such as the degree of disturbance or the ecotype, by identifying clusters of similar neighbourhoods and comparing them with field surveys. |
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Holos covers various conservation practices such as zero tillage, rotations with perennial forages, shelterbelts and riparian buffers, says Glen Shaw, SCCC executive director. |
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I don't know how much the folks here know about riparian rights. |
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I'm turning around and asking them where my riparian rights are. |
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We've lived in harmony for 50 years since my father verbally gave us his riparian rights to have the boat harbour located directly in front of his property. |
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From the time of first settlement in most of the eastern provinces, the use or allocation of water was governed by the law of riparian rights, borrowed from English common law. |
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This is well illustrated by the drastic shrinkage, all over the world, of riparian rights, which were based on private ownership of abutting land and exhibited the character of permanency. |
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Vegetated shorelines and stream banks can be established simply by allowing existing vegetation to grow unmaintained, or native riparian plant species can be established by seed or transplanting. |
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Thus, the species may serve as a model organism for herbaceous riparian phreatophytes. |
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The available information is inadequate to assess fairly the significance of drinking water intakes versus that of effluent discharges or physical changes to the riparian environment. |
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The design of the S. S. Klondike reflects the meeting of the Yukon's riparian geography and the technology of shallow draft steam-powered sternwheelers. |
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However, in the riparian soils the soil type ranges rather from gleyic podzols to histosols. |
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They also have worked together to enhance trout habitat through riparian revegetation, livestock exclosures, and non-native fish removal. |
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Projects encompassed agriculturally beneficial management practices, wetland and riparian restoration, and demonstration projects related to nutrient abatement. |
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Volunteers who walk along the riparian strip regularly to check on its health have reported the gradual return of wildlife to this habitat, including hares, black bears, waterfowl, muskrats and mink. |
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Underwater cages installed in several segments of the farm streams captured three times more muskrats in segments where the riparian buffer was herbaceous than where the buffer was forested. |
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In July 2002, a fishery officer had issued a warning against the removal of the trees and vegetation, known as riparian vegetation, that overhung the foreshore. |
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Finally, the recovery of a network of wetlands and riparian habitats will be implemented on a river valley in the central Transylvania plain, in an important bird area that will improve its conservation status. |
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In all, nearly 1,880 trees and shrubs will be planted on an area of over two hectares to encourage regrowth of the riparian vegetation and speed up the process of restoring the biological features of the area. |
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Who's the culprit when runoff from rooftops and from roads combine to produce flash floods that damage habitat, or when erosion from dozens of properties lacking riparian vegetation combines to clog a spawning bed? |
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They are improving water quality in these areas through beneficial management practices such as planting riparian buffers zones and grassed waterways, installing offsite watering systems, and constructing retention ponds. |
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The Council was concerned at the risk of flooding posed by the continued blockage of the riverbed and at the serious environmental and humanitarian consequences this could entail for certain riparian States. |
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Additionally, fish habitat characteristics, particularly the vegetation cover, will be improved in the riparian area through the seeding of hydrophilic plants and the planting of hydrophilic shrubs and thicket. |
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A static approach of retaining buffer strips on all water bodies on the landscape may not satisfy the needs of all riparian species, especially those that prefer shrubby habitats with little or no canopy cover. |
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In sectors where the riparian strip was of lower quality, water turbidity was found to increase, probably because bank erosion and soil leaching exceeded the system's adaptive capacity. |
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All are subject to the MRC consultation process, which is designed to improve dialogue among the riparian countries as well as the management of the river. |
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One study found that engineering by beavers leads to a 33 percent increase in the number of herbaceous plant species in riparian areas. |
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Research focuses on reducing soil disturbance and developing harvesting techniques for sensitive sites such as riparian zones and areas sensitive to windthrow. |
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The terrestrial, riparian and aquatic vegetation found on these islands, and the fact of their isolation, has produced choice habitat for birds, especially ducks. |
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Special attention will be given to transboundary water management issues and the necessary agreements of the riparian states in the main international river basins. |
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This political support is based on a benefit sharing system between riparian states and the implementation of concrete activities in favour of regional development. |
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A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow. |
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Ecology and management of Arundo donax, and approaches to riparian habitat restoration in Southern California. |
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The organisms in the riparian zone respond to changes in river channel location and patterns of flow. |
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Ambulocetus probably lived in mangroves in brackish water and fed in the riparian zone as a predator of fish and other vertebrates. |
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This change is a threat to the riparian zones and other floodplain forests. |
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The Arizona Game and Fish Department are salvaging threatened Chiricahua leopard frogs by bringing them to Glendale Community College's new riparian habitat. |
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This is somewhat controversial, as riparian landowners and those responsible for local fisheries maintain that the East and West Dart should not be paddled. |
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Continued clearing of habitat, destruction of riparian areas, and fragmentation of blocking of corridors could prevent jaguars from recolonizing previously inhabited areas. |
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Hydrochory is probably another important way of seed dispersal in riparian palms that often form oligarchic populations close to rivers and lakes. |
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Founders of civilisation, interim riparian cotenants of the River Nile and purveyors of the Cheops Pyramid thrice, I am proud to call myself a Couch Grouser. |
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Mistrust and the sense of alienation from the state has become so strong that ordinary Sindhis blame the upper riparian Punjab for all that goes wrong in Sindh. |
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