Stream and Watershed Restoration: A Guide to Restoring Riverine Processes and Habitats [Paperback]

With $2 billion spent annually on stream restoration worldwide, there is a pressing need for guidance in this area, but until now, there was no comprehensive text on the subject. Filling that void, this unique text covers both new and existing information following a stepwise approach on theory, planning, implementation, and evaluation methods for the restoration of stream habitats. Comprehensively illustrated with case studies from around the world,?Stream and Watershed Restoration provides a systematic approach to restoration programs suitable for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses on stream or watershed restoration or as a reference for restoration practitioners and fisheries scientists.

Part of the Advancing River Restoration and Management Series.?

Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/roni/streamrestoration.

Foreword, xiii

Series Foreword, xv

Preface, xvi

1 Introduction to Restoration: Key Steps for Designing Effective Programs and Projects, 1

1.1 Introduction, 1

1.2 What is restoration?, 2

1.3 Why is restoration needed?, 3

1.4 History of the environmental movement, 4

1.5 History of stream and watershed restoration, 5

1.6 Key steps for planning and implementing restoration, 7

1.7 References, 8

2 Watershed Processes, Human Impacts, and Process-based Restoration, 11

2.1 Introduction, 11

2.2 The hierarchical structure of watersheds and riverine ecosystems, 13

2.3 The landscape template and biogeograplã&