- Hydrological, Biological and Physical Interactions Between
Riparian Ecosystems and Streams and Their Relationship to Ecological
Condition
- Water quality Interaction with aquatic habitat and stream
ecological conditions
- Flooding and other disturbance regimes as key ecological
processes
- Hydrologic connections between surface and groundwater in
riparian zones
- Sediment regimes, legacy sediment, and their role in riparian
functions and condition
- Temporal nature of re-establishing functions and benefits
in restored riparian systems
- Riparian Ecosystems as Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat
- Habitat quality and other stream impacts as a function of
riparian extent and condition
- Terrestrial, aquatic, floodplain ecology and flora-fauna
population dynamics
- Riparian areas as habitat corridors
- Influence of vegetation: type, condition, and structure
on riparian function
- Impact of invasive plants and pests on riparian function.
- Stream/ floodplain stability, large woody debris, and water
temperature as elements of riparian function
- Riparian Areas as Buffers: Water Quality Functions and Dynamics
- Instream nutrient processing and hyporheic flow
- Hydrologic connections between buffers and pollutant sources
- Influence of width, extent and continuity of buffers in
riparian function
- Soils, biogeochemical processes and nutrient cycles
- Riparian buffers and sediment dynamics
- Pollutant processing in buffers and buffered streams
- Riparian forest buffers compared to other vegetated filter
strips and wetlands
- Modeling and Mapping Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers
- Evaluation and prediction of riparian and buffer functions
and processes
- GIS/remote sensing approaches to mapping and targeting restoration
and conservation
- Decision models for conservation and restoration
- Monitoring, Assessment and Watershed Scale Studies of Riparian
Zones and Buffers
- Techniques for monitoring and tracking riparian extent,
condition and function
- Methodologies for conducting riparian and buffer studies
- Riparian health and condition assessment techniques
- Rapid assessment tools: benefits and limitations
- Behavior and functionality at site, reach, watershed, river
basin scales
- Appropriate scales for water quality evaluations
- Planning, Design and Management Approaches for Riparian Areas/Buffers
- Long term management strategies for buffers and riparian
corridors
- Designing and managing for multiple objectives in riparian
ecosystems
- Maintenance of buffers to enhance effectiveness
- Streamside management zones and riparian silviculture
- Riparian easements and other land use management tools to
protect riparian zones
- Coastal Buffers and Shoreline Ecosystems
- Living Shorelines
- Water quality functions of coastal and estuarine buffers
- Effects of sea level rise and tools for adapting to shoreline
changes
- Urban Stream Corridors and Riparian Buffers
- Integration of buffers in stormwater management systems
- Low impact development and riparian buffers
- Examining the role of urban riparian ecosystems and buffers
in water quality
- Set-backs, zoning, and other regulatory approaches to riparian
area protection
- Designing managed landscapes with buffers
- Ecosystem Services, Hazard Mitigation, and Market-based Approaches
- Opportunities for market based incentives
- Role of riparian areas in hazard mitigation
- Estimating benefits for nutrient trading
- Riparian buffers as an element of source water management
- Impacts and importance of riparian buffers in enhancing
bioenergy production
- Economic valuation of riparian and buffer ecosystem services
in various landscapes
- Riparian Areas and Buffers in a Changing Climate
- Carbon sequestration in riparian areas
- Adapting to changing hydrologic conditions
- Climate change effects on the function and condition of
riparian ecosystems and buffers
- N2O production and relation to NO3 reduction in buffer zones
- Social, Political, and Programmatic Aspects of Riparian Area
and Buffer Management
- Strategies and tools for enhancing the acceptance of buffers
- Riparian economics
- Buffers and property values
- Evaluation of federal, state and local riparian buffer incentive
and regulatory programs
- Innovative partnerships
- Case Studies in Various Landscapes
- Agriculture (non-irrigated and irrigated)
- Forests (managed and reserved)
- Floodplains(forested and non-forested)
- Prairies (natural grassland ecosystems)
- Grazed lands (concentrated and open-range)
- Urban (downtown to the developing fringe)
- Mined-lands (surface and instream)
- Other
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