Authors:
Bohn, B.A. and J.L. Kershner
Publication Date:
2002
Abstract/Summary:
To successfully improve water quality, restoration practitioners must start with an understanding of what ecosystem processes are operating in the watershed and how they have been affected by outside variables. A watershed-based analysis template developed in the Pacific Northwest can be a valuable aid in developing that level of understanding. The watershed analysis technique identifies four ecosystem scales useful to identify stream restoration priorities: region, basin, watershed, and site. The watershed analysis technique is based on a set of technically rigorous and defensible procedures designed to provide information on what processes are active at the watershed scale, how those processes are distributed in time and space.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Journal of Environmental Management
Link:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.208.7435&rep=rep1&type=pdf