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Oases for Aquatic Life within Agricultural Watersheds
Author(s) -
Marsh Paul C.,
Luey James E.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1982)007<0016:ofalwa>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - threatened species , wetland , channelized , biota , agriculture , natural (archaeology) , aquatic ecosystem , stream restoration , environmental science , ecology , geography , habitat , biology , archaeology , telecommunications , computer science
As expanding urban areas encroach upon productive agricultural lands, so agricultural demands result in drainage of millions of wetland acres and channelization of thousands of miles of stream courses. The impact of such alterations on aquatic biota can be disastrous. Yet natural stream reaches within these intensively developed agricultural watersheds can serve as oases for aquatic life, and possibly hold the key to restoration of damaged systems and preservation of threatened ones.