Lotic science and conservation: Moving toward common ground.
Abstract: Conservation groups and
lotic scientists have recently found common ground. Conservation
groups have expanded their perspectives from local issues at the river-reach
level to strategies for protection and restoration that consider whole
drainage basins or larger landscapes. At the same time, lotic researchers
have moved from site-specific to drainage-basin studies and to the still
larger landscape scale. Both groups have become aware of the degradation
of North American river systems and the necessity of making substantial
changes in national policy. This common ground has provided the context
for collaboration, which is expanding rapidly.
Dewberry, T. C. and C. Pringle. 1994. Lotic science and conservation: Moving toward common ground. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 13: 399-404.
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