Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation-flow response guilds
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DAVID M. MERRITT* , MICHAEL L. SCOTT, N. L EROY POFF , GREGOR T. AUBLE † AND DAVID A. LYTLE § *National Watershed, Fish and Wildlife Program, Natural Resource Research Center, USDA Forest Service and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
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