The role of hydrochory in structuring riparian and wetland vegetation

C Nilsson, RL Brown, R Jansson… - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrochory, or the passive dispersal of organisms by water, is an important means of
propagule transport, especially for plants. During recent years, knowledge about hydrochory …

Vulnerability of riparian ecosystems to elevated CO2 and climate change in arid and semiarid western North America

LG Perry, DC Andersen, LV Reynolds… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian ecosystems, already greatly altered by water management, land development, and
biological invasion, are being further altered by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations …

Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds

DM Merritt, ML Scott, N LeRoy Poff, GT Auble… - Freshwater …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian vegetation composition, structure and abundance are governed to a large degree
by river flow regime and flow‐mediated fluvial processes. Streamflow regime exerts …

A functional methodology for determining the groundwater regime needed to maintain the health of groundwater-dependent vegetation

D Eamus, R Froend, R Loomes, G Hose… - Australian Journal of …, 2006 - CSIRO Publishing
In the past, the phrase 'environmental allocations of water'has most often been taken to
mean allocation of water to rivers. However, it is now accepted that groundwater-dependent …

Drowned, buried and carried away: effects of plant traits on the distribution of native and alien species in riparian ecosystems

JA Catford, R Jansson - New Phytologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian vegetation is exposed to stress from inundation and hydraulic disturbance, and is
often rich in native and alien plant species. We describe 35 traits that enable plants to cope …

Propagule deposition along river margins: linking hydrology and ecology

A Gurnell, K Thompson, J Goodson… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Research has highlighted the importance of buoyancy for hydrochorous
propagule dispersal, but recently the river bed has been identified as a significant store of …

The importance of seasonal flow timing for riparian vegetation dynamics: a systematic review using causal criteria analysis

JOE Greet, J Angus Webb, RD Cousens - Freshwater biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst it is widely recognised that a natural flow regime is important for sustaining riverine
ecosystems, the relative importance of the various components of flow regime for riparian …

Congruence between environmental parameters, morphology and genetic structure in Australia's most widely distributed eucalypt, Eucalyptus camaldulensis

PA Butcher, MW McDonald, JC Bell - Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2009 - Springer
Eucalyptus camaldulensis is one of the most widely utilised eucalypts. It is also the only
eucalypt that occurs across the Australian continent, playing a key ecological role as fauna …

[图书][B] Flooded forest and desert creek: ecology and history of the river red gum

M Colloff - 2014 - books.google.com
The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia,
forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the …

Seed bank, seed dispersal and vegetation cover: Colonization along a newly‐created river channel

AM Gurnell, AJ Boitsidis, K Thompson… - Journal of Vegetation …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Question: What is the relative importance of the initial seed bank and subsequent seed
dispersal for floristic composition of bank vegetation two years after creation of a newly‐cut …