Floodplains

Jeffrey J. Opperman is the global lead freshwater scientist for WWF and a research associate at the University of California, Davis. Peter B. Moyle is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Eric W. Larsen is a research scientist and fluvial geomorphologist in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Joan L. Florsheim is a researcher in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, and earth-surface processes at the Earth Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Amber D. Manfree is a postdoctoral researcher in geography at the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.

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1 • INTRODUCTION TO TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS
2 • HYDROLOGY
3 • GEOMORPHOLOGY
4 • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
5 • ECOLOGY: INTRODUCTION
6 • FLOODPLAIN FORESTS
7 • PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PRODUCTION
8 • FISHES AND OTHER VERTEBRATES
9 • ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND FLOODPLAIN RECONCILIATION
10 • FLOODPLAINS AS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
11 • CASE STUDIES OF FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION
12 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY
13 • CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS TODAY
14 • RECONCILING CENTRAL VALLEY FLOODPLAINS
15 • CONCLUSIONS: MANAGING TEMPERATE FLOODPLAINS FOR MULTIPLE BENEFITS

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