Climatic and geomorphic controls on semi-fluvial ecosystems

Author

Max Aldon Crocker Jr.

Publication Date

4-5-1996

Abstract

In most climatic regions, the growth of ecological knowledge for terrestrial and limnological components of landscapes have roughly occurred in tandem. But at a time when the world's deserts are increasingly used for human development. and particularly so along water courses, knowledge of how stream ecosystems function within semi-add landscapes has seriously lagged the productive history of terrestrial research there. How terrestrial and limnological components interact within semi-arid landscapes will elude a useful scientific understanding of semi-arid landscapes and will preclude wise landscape management policies as long as semi-arid fluvial ecosystems in general, and ephemeral streams in particular, remain poorly understood.

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Biology

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

UNM Biology Department

First Committee Member (Chair)

Manuel C. Molles Jr.

Second Committee Member

Clifford N. Dahm

Third Committee Member

Clifford S. Crawford

Fourth Committee Member

MIchael E. Campana

Recommended Citation

Crocker, Max Aldon Jr.. "Climatic and geomorphic controls on semi-fluvial ecosystems." (1996). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/316