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Abstract
Bottomland plant communities are typically dominated by the effects of floods. Floods create the surfaces on which plants become established, transport seeds and nutrients, and remove establish plants. Floods provide a moisture subsidy that allows development of bottomland forests in arid regions and produce anoxic soils, which can control bottomland plant distribution in humid regions. Repeated flooding produces a mosaic of patches of different age, sediment texture, and inundation duration; this mosaic fosters high species richness.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Floods, flood control, and bottomland vegetation |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Fort Collins Science Center |
| Description | 19 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Inland flood hazards: human, riparian and aquatic communities |
| First page | 219 |
| Last page | 237 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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