Riparian/Floodplain Ecology: Class Reading List

Literature available through course website (simply click below) or CNR Copy Ctr (Rm 22)

Week One
Wiens, J.A. 2002.  Riverine landscapes: taking landscape ecology into the water. Freshwater Biol. 47: 501-516.

Ward, JV, K. Tockner et al. 2002.  Riverine landscape diversity.. Freshwater Biol. 47: 517-539.

Ward, J.V. 1997.  An expansive perspective of riverine landscapes: pattern and process across scales.  Gaia 6: 52-60. 
(CNR Copy Ctr)

Weeks Two & Three
Riggs, HC and KD Harvey. 1990.  Chapter 4: Temporal and Spatial Variability of Streamflow.  In: Surface Water Hydrology, MG Wolman and HC Riggs (eds), Geologic Society of America, Boulder, CO.  (CNR Copy Ctr)

Matthai, HF. 1990. Chapter 5: Floods. In: Surface Water Hydrology, MG Wolman and HC Riggs (eds), Geologic Society of America, Boulder, CO.  (CNR Copy Ctr) 

Huggenberger, P., E. Hoehn, R. Beschta, W. Woessner. 1998.  Abiotic aspects of channels and floodplains in riparian ecology.  Freshwater Biol. 40: 407-426.

Church, M. 2002.  Geomorphic thresholds in riverine landscapes.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 541-558.

Weeks Four to Six
Malard, F., K. Tockner, M-J Dole-Oliver, J.V. Ward. 2002.  A landscape perspective of surface-subsurface hydrological exchanges in river corridors.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 621-640.

Gurnell, AM, H Piegay, FJ Swanson, SV Gregory. 2002. Large wood and fluvial processes.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 601-620.

Pusch, M., D. Fiebig et al. 1998.  The role of micro-organisms in the ecological connectivity of running waters. Freshwater Biol. 40: 453-495.

Ward, JV, G. Bretschko et al. 1998. The boundaries of river systems: the metazoan perspective.  Freshwater Biol. 40: 531-569.

Weeks Seven & Eight 
Karrenberg, S., PJ Edwards & J. Kollman. 2002. The life history of Salicaceae living in the active zone of floodplains. Freshwater Biol. 47: 733-748.

Braatne, JH, SB Rood & PE Heilman. 1996.  Life history, ecology and conservation of riparian cottonwoods in North America.  In: RF Stettler, HD Bradshaw, PE Heilman and TM Hinckley (eds), Biology of Populus: implications for management and conservation.  National Research Council of Canada: 423-458. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Tabacchi, E., DL Correll, R. Hauer, et al. 1998. Development, maintenance and role of riparian vegetation in the river landscape.  Freshwater Biol. 40: 497-516.

Tabacchi, E., Planty-Tabacchi, A., M. Salinas & H. Decamps. 1996.  Landscape structure and diversity in riparian plant communities: a longitudinal comparative study. Regulated Rivers: research and management 12: 367-390. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Week Nine
Cordes, L.D., F.M.R.Hughes, & M. Getty. 1997.  Factors affecting the regeneration and distribution of riparian woodlands along a northern prairie river: Red Deer River , Alberta , Canada .  Journal of Biogeography 24: 675-695. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Planty-Tabacchi, A., E. Tabacchi , R.Naiman et al. 1996.  Invasibility of species-rich communities in riparian zones.  Conservation Biology 10: 598-607. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Week 10
Malmqvist, B. 2002. Aquatic invertebrates in riverine landscapes.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 661-677.

Fausch, K.D. C.E. Torgersen, C.V. Baxter & H.W. Li. 2002. Landscapes to Riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes. BioScience 52: 483-498.

Week 12-13
Robinson, C.T, K. Tockner & J.V. Ward. 2002.  The fauna of dynamic riverine landscapes. Freshwater Biol. 47: 661-677.

Buckton, S.T. & S.J. Ormerod. 2002.  Global patterns of diversity among the specialist birds of riverine landscapes.  Freshwater Biol. 47:695-709.

Kauffman, J.B., M. Mahrt. L.A. Mahrt & W.D. Edge. 2001.Wildlife of Riparian Habitats. In: D.H. Johnson & T.A. O'Neil (eds), Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington.  Oregon State University Press, Corvalls: 361-388. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Weeks 14-15
Mertes, L.A.K. 2002.  Remote sensing of riverine landscapes.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 799-816.

Richards, K., J. Brasington and F. Hughes. 2002. Geomorphic dynamics of floodplains: ecological implications and a potential modelling strategy. Freshwater Biol.  47: 559-579.

Leuven, R.S.E.W. & I. Poudevigne. 2002.  Riverine landscape dynamics and ecological risk assessment. Freshwater Biol. 47: 845-865.

Jungwirth, M., S. Muhar and S. Schmutz. 2002. Re-establishing and assessing ecological integrity in riverine landscapes.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 867-887.

Trimble, SW & AC Mendel. 1995.  The cow as a geomorphic agent: a critical review.  Geomorphology 13: 233-253. 

Week 16
Johnson, W.C. 2002.  Riparian vegetation diversity along regulated rivers: contribution of novel and relict habitats.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 749-759.

Wissmar, R.C., J.H. Braatne, R. Beschta and S.B. Rood. 2003. Variability of riparian ecosystems and implications for restoration. In: R.C. Wissmar and P.A. Bisson (eds.), Strategies for Renewing River Ecosystems: variability and uncertainty of biophysical functions and their consequences. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland: 107-127. (CNR Copy Ctr)

Buijse, A.D., H. Coops, et al. 2002. Restoration strategies for river floodplains along large lowland rivers in Europe.  Freshwater Biol. 47:889-907.