This literature review addresses how wide a streamside forest buffer needs to be to protect
water quality, habitat, and biota for small streams (≤~ 100 km2 or~ 5th order watershed) …

The thermal regime of rivers plays an important role in the overall health of aquatic
ecosystems, including water quality issues and the distribution of aquatic species within the …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Small streams constitute the majority of the water courses in a catchment and have specific
characteristics that distinguish them from larger streams and rivers. Despite their small size …

Research on stream and river temperatures is reviewed with particular attention being given
to advances in understanding gained since 1990 and on investigations of fundamental …

A study of 16 streams in eastern North America shows that riparian deforestation causes
channel narrowing, which reduces the total amount of stream habitat and ecosystem per unit …

Forest harvesting can increase solar radiation in the riparian zone as well as wind speed
and exposure to air advected from clearings, typically causing increases in summertime air …

River hydromorphology has long been subjected to huge anthropogenic pressures with
severe negative impacts on related ecosystems' functioning and water quality. Therefore …

The temperature of stream water is an important control of many in-stream processes. To
better understand the processes and consequences of solar energy inputs to streams …

This paper reviewed the provincial, territorial, and state guidelines for the retention of treed
riparian buffers after timber harvest in Canada and the United States. Comparisons amongst …