Project Title
Efficacy of different riparian buffer treatments on maintaining headwater stream ecosystem structure and function.
Description
Headwater streams make up approximately 75% of total river length in most watersheds in the Pacific Northwest thereby providing essential subsidies to downstream fish-bearing reaches. In this long-term (since 1996), large-scale (whole watershed) experimental manipulation, we are examining the effects of a variety of logging treatments (different riparian buffer widths and thinning regimes) on headwater stream ecosystems.
Investigators
Peter Kiffney
Collaborators
Dr. John Richardson, Forest Sciences Department,
University of British Columbia
Support
Forest Renewal BC, Forest Investment Act of BC, and NOAA Fisheries
Project Status
Data collection and analyses ongoing
Relevant Publications
Karlsson, M., J. Richardson, and P. M. Kiffney. 2005. Modelling organic matter dynamics in headwater streams of south-western British Columbia. Ecological Modelling 183: 463-476.
Kiffney, P. M, J. S. Richardson, and J. P. Bull. 2004 Establishing light as a causal mechanism structuring stream communities in response to experimental manipulation of riparian buffer width. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 54:542-555.
Kiffney, P. M., J. S. Richardson, and J. P. Bull 2003. Responses of periphyton and insect consumers to experimental manipulation of riparian buffer width along headwater streams. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:1060-1076.
Kiffney, P. M., J. P. Bull, M. C. Feller. 2002. Climatic and hydrologic variability in a coastal watershed of southwestern British Columbia. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:1437-1451.
Kiffney, P. M., J. S. Richardson, and M. Feller. 2000. Fluvial and epilithic organic matter dynamics in small streams of southwestern British Columbia: Archiv für Hydrobiologie 149: 109-129. |
