Riparian Areas of the Southwestern United States: Hydrology, Ecology, and Management

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Riparian Areas of the Southwestern United States Hydrology, Ecology, and Management

Riparian Areas of the Southwestern United States Hydrology, Ecology, and Management Edited by

Malchus B. Baker, Jr. Peter F. Ffolliott Leonard F. DeBano Daniel G. Neary

LEWIS PUBLISHERS A CRC Press Company Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Malchus B. Baker, Jr. … [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56670-626-2 (alk. paper) 1. Riparian ecology--Southwestern States. 2. Ecosystem management--Southwestern States. I. Baker, Malchus B., Jr. QH104.5.S6R57 2003 577.68—dc21 2003047548

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Dedication

Malchus B. Baker, Jr.

This book is dedicated to Malchus B. Baker Jr., who died suddenly on September 24, 2002. The contributions that Malchus made to enhancing knowledge of the hydrology, ecology and management of riparian areas in the Southwest will be long remembered. Those of us who worked with him over the years have countless memories — good times and rough times, too. Besides his invaluable professional contributions, we fondly remember Malchus’ quick smile, dry humor, gentle easy-going ways and complete devotion to his family and friends. Malchus is appropriately recognized as the senior technical editor of this book to ensure that this remembrance continues. This is truly the right thing to do.

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Editors Peter F. Ffolliott, Ph.D. is a professor on the faculties of the School of Renewable Natural Resources and Arid Lands Resource Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona. He holds a B.S. in forest management and an M.F. in forest-wildlife management from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in watershed management from the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to the University of Arizona in 1970, he was a Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service in Flagstaff, Arizona. Dr. Ffolliott currently teaches and conducts research programs in support of watershed and other natural resources management. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters, the Indian Association of Hydrologists and the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science and a member of other professional and honorary societies. Dr. Ffolliott has authored, co-authored, or jointly authored 450 publications on the ecology, management and appraisal of natural resources programs and related supporting topics. Leonard F. DeBano, Ph.D. is a professor of Watershed Management in the School of Renewable Natural Resources at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Dr. DeBano received a B.S. in Range Management at Colorado State University, an M.S. in Range Management at Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Soil Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was with the USDA Forest Service for 35 years, working as a scientist and a project leader in watershed management for the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station at Glendora, California and at the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station in Tempe, Arizona. A major focus of his personal research was quantifying the effect of fire on physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. He is an internationally recognized authority on water repellency in soils and its relationship to fire. As project leader, he led a research team studying watershed problems in the southwestern United States, including the impact of brush and forest manipulations on runoff, erosion and stream channel processes. He has actively participated in research on Southwest riparian areas, focusing on the relationship between them and the management of the surrounding watersheds. Daniel G. Neary, Ph.D. is Project Leader and Research Soil Scientist, Watershed and Riparian Ecosystems Project, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, Arizona. Dr. Neary has B.S. (Forestry), M.S. (Forest Ecology) and Ph.D. (Forest Soils and Hydrology) degrees from Michigan State University. He is a certified Professional Soil Scientist through ARCPACS (American Registry of Certified Professional Agronomists, Crop Scientists and Soil Scientists) and the current Chair of the ARCPACS Soils Certification Board. He is a registered Emergency Medical Technician (Arizona and National) and has worked on fire incident teams as a Medical Unit Leader and EMT. He worked for the New Zealand Forest Service, Forest Research Institute at Rotorua, New Zealand, from 1974 to 1978 and, since then, has been with the USDA Forest Service Research in North Carolina (1978 to 1981),

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Introduction Peter F. Ffolliott, Malchus B. Baker, Jr., Leonard F. DeBano and Daniel G. Neary

CONTENTS 1.1 Hydrologic Relationships.................................................................................2 1.2 Ecological Relationships..................................................................................3 1.3 Resource Use....................................................................................................4 1.4 Changing Emphasis of Riparian Management................................................6 1.5 Summary ..........................................................................................................7 References..................................................................................................................8

Riparian areas, situated in the interfaces between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, are located along the banks of rivers and perennial, intermittent and ephemeral streams and around the edges of lakes, ponds, springs, bogs and meadows. Riparian corridors are largely delineated by soil characteristics and by vegetative communities that require free or unbound water. The abruptness and extent of transitions between the terrestrial and aquatic interfaces that delineate the riparian areas are generally site specific. Transitions across terrestrial, riparian and aquatic ecosystems in the southwestern United States tend to be more abrupt than those in the more humid eastern United States (Figure 1.1). Riparian areas occupy less than 2% of the total land area in the Southwest. However, these ecosystems are often the most productive and valuable of all of these lands. They are found in a wide range of climatic, hydrologic and ecological environments, from high-elevation montane forests through intermediate-elevation woodlands to low-elevation shrublands and desert grasslands (see Plate 1 in color insert following page 174). Major river drainages and tributaries supporting riparian ecosystems include the lower Colorado River from Lee’s Ferry in northern Arizona

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RIPARIAN AREAS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

Transition profiles across terrestrial, riparian and aquatic ecosystems in (A) the southwestern United States (adapted from Johnson, R.R. and Lowe, C.H., On the development of riparian ecology, in Riparian Ecosystems and Their Management: Reconciling Conflicting Uses, Tech. Coords. Johnson, R.R. et al., USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins CO, 1985) and (B) the eastern United States (adapted from Clark, J.R. and Benforado, J., Introduction, in Wetlands of Bottom Hardwood Forests, Clark J.R. and Benforado, J., Eds., Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1981.)

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In an attempt to provide more water for downstream users, land managers replaced salt cedar and other riparian vegetation with high transpiration rates with vegetative types that transpire less water. Photo: Peter F. Ffolliott, University of Arizona.

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Definitions ......................................................................................................12 2.1.1 Riparian ..............................................................................................12 2.1.1.1 Physical and Biological Criteria.........................................12 2.1.1.2 Administrative Definitions..................................................12 2.1.1.3 Other Definitions ................................................................13 2.1.2 Wetlands .............................................................................................14 2.2 Classifications.................................................................................................15 2.2.1 General Approaches ...........................................................................15 2.2.2 Information Needs and Analyses.......................................................16 2.2.3 Southwestern Riparian Ecosystems ...................................................16 2.2.4 Southwest Wetlands ...........................................................................18 2.2.4.1 Mountain Meadows and Montane Wetlands......................19 2.2.4.2 Coastline Wetlands..............................................................19 2.2.4.3 Marshlands..........................................................................20 2.2.4.4 Ciénegas ..............................................................................21 2.2.4.5 Constructed Wetlands .........................................................21 2.3 Summary ........................................................................................................21 References................................................................................................................23 Riparian and wetland ecosystems have been defined and classified in numerous ways over the past four decades. This chapter presents a general framework of terminology, provides examples that illustrate the evolution of terminology and summarizes various classification systems used by different disciplines or objectives. Wetlands are included because of their historical importance and their present-day status as part of the Southwest’s endangered ecosystems. 1-56670-626-2/04/$0.00+$1.50 © 2004 by CRC Press LLC

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Riparian Ecosystem Assessments Juliet Stromberg, Mark Briggs, Mike Scott and Patrick Shafroth

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Fauna Secondary productivity, abundance Trophic complexity Species diversity Species/guild composition • Indicator species • Sensitive & rare species

Herbivory, Pollination, Seed dispersal

Water uptake, Slowing of floodwaters, Capture of pollutants

Provision of water, Nutrient transport, Seed dispersal, Physical disturbance

Hydrology Groundwater depth Surface water permanence Flood timing, magnitude, frequency Water quality

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Secondary production, Cover/habitat provision, Microclimate moderation

Riparian Vegetation Biomass, productivity Structural complexity Species diversity Species composition Population age structure, reproduction Physiologic stress, vigor Resilience

OM production, nutrient inputs, Sediment capture

Formation of recruitment surfaces

Nutrients cycling Moisture retention

Floodplain Soils Texture Organic matter content Nutrient content Salinity, conductivity Moisture Microbial communities Mycorrhizal associates

Bank stabilization, Sediment trapping

Geomorphology Sediment texture Floodplain morphology Channel morphology

Functional relationships between key abiotic and biotic components of riparian ecosystems. Elements listed within boxes are variables that can be measured as indicators of functional change.

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