Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7483514 | Journal of Environmental Management | 2014 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The overall accuracies of this Spatially-Distributed Cottonwood Recruitment model were 47% for a braided reach and 68% for a meander reach along the Kootenai River in Idaho, USA. Model accuracies increased to 64% and 72%, respectively, when fewer favorability classes were considered. The model predicted areas of similarly favorable recruitment potential for 1997 and 2006, two recent years with successful cottonwood recruitment. This model should provide a useful tool to quantify impacts of human activities and climatic variability on cottonwood recruitment, and to prescribe instream flow regimes for the conservation and restoration of riparian woodlands.
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Authors
Rohan Benjankar, Michael Burke, Elowyn Yager, Daniele Tonina, Gregory Egger, Stewart B. Rood, Norm Merz,