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Ecology and Management of Riparian and Wetland Vegetation in the Anthropocene

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 May 2021) | Viewed by 3602

Special Issue Editors

Assoc. Prof. Samantha Capon

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School of Environment and Science, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia
Interests: riparian and wetland ecology; environmental water management; riparian restoration; ecological monitoring and evaluation; ethics and philosophy of ecological science
Prof. Dr. Fran Sheldon

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School of Environment and Science, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia
Interests: freshwater ecology; stream and river health; riparian restoration
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Riparian and wetland vegetation are disproportionately valuable components of the landscape, harboring high levels of biodiversity and supporting a wide range of critical ecosystem functions and services across multiple scales. In many human-dominated landscapes, however, riparian and wetland ecosystems have also been subject to intense levels of human pressure, now exacerbated by climate change. Degradation of riparian vegetation in particular is increasingly associated with many major environmental problems including deteriorating water quality, bank instability and biodiversity loss. Restoration of riparian and wetland vegetation is now widely recognized as a priority for catchment management. In this special issue, we will consider current understanding of riparian and wetland vegetation ecology in the Anthropocene as well as emerging approaches to its restoration and management.

We invite you to contribute your recent research and opinion pieces in relation to understanding riparian and wetland vegetation ecology in the Anthropocene as well novel approaches to its restoration and management.

Assoc. Prof. Samantha Capon
Prof. Dr. Fran Sheldon
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • buffers
  • catchment management
  • environmental water
  • plant communities
  • water regimes

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Nearshore Fish Species Richness and Species–Habitat Associations in the St. Clair–Detroit River System
by Corbin D. Hilling, Jason L. Fischer, Jason Ross, Taaja R. Tucker, Robin L. DeBruyne, Christine M. Mayer and Edward F. Roseman
Water 2021, 13(12), 1616; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13121616 - 8 Jun 2021
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Shallow water riparian zones of large rivers provide important habitat for fishes, but anthropogenic influences have reduced the availability and quality of these habitats. In the St. Clair–Detroit River System, a Laurentian Great Lakes connecting channel, losses of riparian habitat contributed to impairment [...] Read more.
Shallow water riparian zones of large rivers provide important habitat for fishes, but anthropogenic influences have reduced the availability and quality of these habitats. In the St. Clair–Detroit River System, a Laurentian Great Lakes connecting channel, losses of riparian habitat contributed to impairment of fish populations and their habitats. We conducted a seine survey annually from 2013 to 2019 at ten sites in the St. Clair and Detroit rivers to assess riparian fish communities, and to identify habitat attributes associated with fish species richness and catches of common species. We captured a total of 38,451 fish representing 60 species, with emerald shiner Notropis atherinoides composing the largest portion of the catch. We used an information-theoretic approach to assess the associations between species richness and catches of 33 species with habitat variables (substrate, shoreline vegetation types, and aquatic macrophyte richness). Sand, cobble, and algal substrates and shoreline vegetation were important predictors of species richness based on a multimodel inference approach. However, habitat associations of individual species varied. This work identified manageable habitat variables associated with species richness, while identifying potential tradeoffs for individual species. Further, this work provides baselines for development and evaluation of fish community and shoreline habitat restoration goals. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecology and Management of Riparian and Wetland Vegetation in the Anthropocene)
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