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Buffer strips are strips of forest retained along streamsides after harvesting to mitigate negative impacts of forestry on aquatic and riparian fauna and water quality. The capacity of riparian buffer strips of old-growth forest to maintain species richness and abundance of natural bird communities was explored in coastal montane forest on Vancouver Island, Canada. Breeding bird communities in buffer strips of varying widths along rivers were compared with controls of equivalent area in uncut old-growth riparian forest to identify shifts in species richness, diversity, abundance and composition. We observed that effects on riparian bird communities were greatest in very narrow buffers with high amounts of edge habitat. Several forest-interior species were found almost exclusively in wider buffers and abundances dropped dramatically between wide (125 m) and medium (41 m) width buffers with replacement by open-edge species in narrow buffers. Species composition of communities in wide buffers were very similar to controls while narrow buffers shared less than half of their species with controls. Species richness and diversity increased in buffers over the three years while remaining constant in controls. Increases in species richness and abundance within buffers were positively correlated with similar increases in the adjacent clearcuts, suggesting that regeneration in clearcuts may facilitate recolonization of forest in remnant buffers. For the forest-interior species found primarily in wide buffers, buffers >100 m may need to be retained. 相似文献
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A runoff plot experiment found that ten metre undisturbed forest buffers removed80–90% of runoff and over 95% of sediment produced by logging skid tracks. The study was carried out on 21º slopes in a native forest in eastern New South Wales, Australia. The experiment included three replicates of four treatments including undisturbed control, skid track, skid track + undisturbed buffer and skid track + disturbed buffer. Skid track and control plots were 20 m long by 5 m wide. Buffer plots consisted of a 20 m by 5 m skid track directing runoff to a 10 m by 5 m naturally vegetated buffer that was either undisturbed or lightly disturbed. Runoff and sediment yields from plots were monitored over two successive summers. Undisturbed buffers greatly reduced overland flow and decreased sediment yields from around 100 Mg ha1 to less than 0.5 Mg ha-1. Differences in both runoff and sediment yield between undisturbed buffer and control treatments were minimal and not statistically significant. Disturbed buffers achieved similarly large reductions in runoff and sediment yield in two out of three replicates. The third replicate yielded as much or more runoff and sediment than the skid track plots suggesting that disturbance increased the risk of buffer failure. The peak rate of outflow from buffer plots was generally not related to peak buffer inflow until a threshold inflow of 1.6 L s-1 was reached, after which peak outflow and peak inflow were linearly related. 相似文献
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E. M. Enanga W. A. Shivoga C. Maina-Gichaba I. F. Creed 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2011,218(1-4):587-601
Riparian buffer strip guidelines are under scrutiny in the River Njoro Watershed in Kenya. This study investigated soil properties (bulk density, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) in different land use types (small scale agriculture in recent settlements, mixed agriculture in established peri-urban settlements, large-scale commercial agriculture, and the gazetted forest reference condition) and their adjacent buffer strips. Bulk density, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus within 30-m riparian buffer strips adjacent to recent settlement land use areas were similar to those of the gazetted forest reference condition, but only bulk density of the buffer strips adjacent to peri-urban and commercial agriculture land use areas were similar to the gazetted forest reference condition. Phosphorus is a sensitive indicator of the impacts of human activity, as increased concentrations were observed with increasing scale of land use activity. For riparian buffers adjacent to recent settlements, soil phosphorus was significantly higher in buffers narrower than 30?m (5.01?mg?P?kg?1) than gazetted forest (3.40?mg?P?kg?1) but not significantly different for riparian buffers wider than 30?m (3.81?mg?P?kg?1) compared to gazetted forest. Based on the research, it is recommended that policies governing riparian buffer strips become (1) stricter, with the current ??maximum?? of 30?m considered a minimum; and (2) adaptive, with 30?m used in small-scale agricultural areas, and wider riparian buffer strips used in medium- and large-scale agricultural areas. 相似文献
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Recent attention has focused on riparian forest buffer systems for filtering sediment, nutrients, and pesticides entering from upslope agricultural fields. Studies in a variety of physiographic areas have shown that concentrations of sediment and agrichemicals are reduced after passage through a riparian forest. The mechanisms involved are both physical and biological, including deposition, uptake by vegetation, and loss by microbiological processes such as denitrification. Current research by USDA-ARS and University of Georgia scientists at Tifton, GA is focusing on managing riparian forest buffer systems to alleviate agricultural impacts on the environment. The underlying concept for this research is that agricultural impact on streams is best protected by a riparian forest buffer system consisting of three zones. In consecutive upslope order from the stream these zones are (1) a narrow band of permanent trees (5–10 m wide) immediately adjacent to the stream channel which provides streambank stabilization, organic debris input to streams, and shading of streams, (2) a forest management zone where maximum biomass production is stressed and frees can be harvested, and (3) a grass buffer strip up to 10 m wide to provide control of coarse sediment and to spread overland flow. Several ongoing projects at Tifton, GA are focusing on using riparian forest buffer systems as filters. A forest management project is testing the effects of different management practices on surface and ground water quality. This project includes three different forest management practices: mature forest, selectively thinned forest, and clearcut. In a different study a natural wetland is being restored by planting frees. The effectiveness of this wetland on filtering nutrients from dairy wastes which are being applied upslope is being evaluated. At this same site, a pesticide study is being conducted on the side opposite to where dairy wastes are applied. An overland flow-riparian buffer system using swine lagoon waste is evaluating the effectiveness of different vegetative treatments and lengths of buffer zones on filtering of nutrients. In this study three vegetative treatments are compared: (1) 10 m grass buffer and 20 m riparian forest, (2) 20 m grass buffer and 10 m riparian forest, (3) 10 m grass buffer and 20 m of the recommended wetland species maidencane. Waste is applied at the upper end of each plot at either a high or low rate, and then allowed to flow downslope. The three zone riparian forest buffer system is being used for the Riparian Ecosystem Management Model (REMM). This model, which is currently under development at Tifton, GA, is a computer simulation model designed to reduce soil and water degradation by aiding farmers and land use managers in decision making regarding how best to utilize their riparian buffer system. Both information currently being collected in field studies and development of the REMM are innovative farm-level and forestry technologies to protect soil and water resources. 相似文献
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通过对潮白河流域22个断面的调查分析,根据潮白河河道断面形态、河岸土地利用类型及岸坡坡度等条件,将潮白河河道断面划分为:U形+缓坡、U形+陡坡、U形+陡坎、V形+陡坡和漫滩型,并对潮白河河岸植被缓冲带完整性进行了评价。结果显示,潮河河段内植被缓冲带完整性较差,以次不完整状况为主;白河河段内河岸植被缓冲带状况相对较好,大部分调查断面内植被缓冲带为基本完整及完整状态。针对潮白河河岸植被缓冲带存在的问题,提出了潮白河流域不同河岸带断面类型植被缓冲带的恢复对策。 相似文献
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Effects of Restored Stream Buffers on Water Quality in Non-tidal Streams in the Choptank River Basin
Adrienne J. Sutton Thomas R. Fisher Anne B. Gustafson 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2010,208(1-4):101-118
Restoration of riparian buffers is an important component of nutrient reduction strategies in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In 1998, Maryland adopted a Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), which provides financial incentives to take agricultural land out of production to plant streamside vegetation. Between 1998 and 2005, 1–30% of streamside vegetation (average?=?11%), was restored to forest or managed grass in 15 agriculturally dominated sub-basins in the Choptank River basin, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. Pre-existing forested buffers represented 10–48% of the streamside (average?=?33%), for a total of 12–61% buffered streamsides (average?=?44%). Using multi-year water quality data collected before and after CREP implementation (1986, 2003–2006), we were unable to detect significant effects of CREP on baseflow nutrient concentrations based on the area of restored buffer, the percentage of restored streamside, or the percentage of total riparian buffer in the sub-basins (p?>?0.05). Although CREP increased the average buffered streamside from 33% in the 1990s to 44% by 2005, N and P concentrations have not changed or have increased in some streams over the last 20 years. Reductions may not have occurred for the following reasons: (1) buffer age, width, and connectivity (gaps) between buffers are also important to nutrient reductions; (2) agricultural nutrient inputs may have increased during this period; and (3) riparian buffer restoration was not extensive enough by 2005 to have measurable affects on the stream water quality in these sub-basins. Significant effects of CREP may yet be resolved as the current CREP buffers mature; however, water quality data through 2006 in the Choptank basin do not yet show any significant effects. 相似文献
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河岸带植被对非点源氮、磷以及悬浮颗粒物的截留效应 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
选取草地河岸带和人工林地河岸带,开展了人工模拟农田施肥和径流污染物截留效果的现场试验。分别采集地表径流和渗透水水样,测定分析了总磷(TP)、总氮(TN)、氨氮(NH4—N)以及固体颗粒物的浓度。结果表明,草地河岸带对地表径流TP的截留效果显著优于林地河岸带,草地和林地河岸带对氮元素的截留效果趋于一致;河岸带对地表径流和渗透水中TN,TP和NH4—N的截留率是相似的;草地河岸带对固体颗粒物的截留效果优于林地河岸带;河岸带越宽,其截污功能越强;人为干扰造成了人工林地河岸带截污能力的减弱。并提出了河岸带管理的相关建议。 相似文献
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Janet Hussein Hossein Ghadiri Mavourneen Lutton Andrew Smolders Peter Schneider 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2008,40(10):2696-2698
Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts can be transported in overland flow from faecal deposits of grazing animals causing potential water contamination problems. Deposition of oocysts can occur when overland flow encounters vegetative buffers and its transport capacity is decreased in the upslope backwater region. Deposition of oocysts was investigated using a large rainfall simulator, with and without a vetiver buffer strip. Oocysts-spiked slurries were applied to two contrasting soils and the resultant oocyst/sediment depositions from the flow were compared. The buffers substantially reduced suspended sediment loads from the two soils and increased the oocyst concentration in the soil with >99% of the deposited oocysts measured upslope of the buffer. 相似文献
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Movement of aeolian (wind-blown) inorganic sediment was indexed in and around new riparian and upland clearcuts in northwestern Ontario, Canada with bucket-style terrestrial litterfall traps. Aeolian sediment originated primarily from clearcuts, roads, and skid trails, where soil disturbance was high and forest hitterfall was low. Relatively small amounts of aeolian sediment were recovered from riparian buffer strips and upland forest. Aeolian sediment was observed to reach lakes adjacent to the clearcuts and may be responsible for elevated levels of littoral sedimentation measured in one study lake. However, the amounts of sediment deposition observed are not likely to cause important changes in water quality or benthic habitat for algae, invertebrates, or fish in these lakes. 相似文献
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We investigated the influence of landscape and wetland characteristics on pond-breeding amphibian assemblages in south-central New Hampshire, a relatively low populated and heavily forested region of the northeastern United States. This allowed us to better understand landscape influences in less disturbed areas, and to determine critical landscape disturbance thresholds, above which amphibians are negatively impacted. We sampled 61 wetlands for larval amphibians in 1998 and 1999 to examine the influence of forest cover and road density (at seven buffer distances between 100 and 2000 m) and wetland characteristics on larval amphibian assemblages. Assemblages were influenced primarily by forest cover and wetland hydroperiod. Species richness was most strongly influenced by the proportion of forest cover within 1000 m of the wetland. Several species were also influenced by forest cover, but were differentially influenced by buffer widths. Our study suggests that, at least in the northeast US, wetlands with <40% forest cover within a 1000 m radius may have depauperate larval amphibian assemblages, and forest cover above 60% within a 1000 m radius is likely to ensure species rich and abundant larval amphibian assemblages. Given the above, current federal and state regulations that focus amphibian protection efforts on narrow terrestrial buffers surrounding wetlands are likely to be inadequate. 相似文献
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埋土防寒区葡萄冬剪后挂枝的防风效果 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
为了改善葡萄传统栽培方式冬春季地表裸露导致的风蚀状况,该文研究了"爬地龙"栽培模式下,葡萄冬剪后枝条悬挂在铁丝上形成风障的防风阻沙效果。结果表明:此防护措施的透光疏透度值75.6%分布在0.48~0.68,均值0.58,确定为通风结构;分析风速与防护长度的关系,得到1 m高度处风速在途经风障时变化过程:遇风障减弱、集流加速、迅速减弱、恢复和背风侧消减;在风障中距迎风侧边缘34 m处风速达到最低值,较旷野风速值减小84.20%,防风效能达80.72%;从背风侧风障边缘到距离边缘34 m处,均属于相对有效防护距离以内,防风效能均值达40.94%;该研究中葡萄园的输沙量沿高度分布遵循幂函数,输沙量均集中在近地面。挂枝的距地表5~150 cm高度的总输沙量比对照高39.0%。该研究可为中国葡萄埋土防寒区的防风阻沙工作提供参考。 相似文献
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太湖上游西苕溪近岸森林土壤氮磷养分差异特征 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
近岸森林土壤受到河水涨落等自然侵蚀和人类活动的双重扰动,增加了土壤养分流失威胁,从而增大了下游河流和湖泊富营养化的风险,影响森林作为河岸缓冲带作用的发挥。对河岸森林土壤养分的研究,可为河岸森林树种的选取、河岸带建设、经营与管理等提供依据。以太湖上游的西苕溪两岸1km范围内的森林为研究对象,选择典型竹林、经济林、纯林和混交林样地34块,分层采集土壤样品,实验室测定有效磷、碱解氮、全氮和全磷等养分含量,利用变异系数分析不同森林类型和不同深度土层中养分含量的变异性,并且采用单因素方差分析和多重比较的方法分析土壤养分含量在不同森林类型间同一深度土层的差异性。结果表明,竹林土壤有效磷、碱解氮、全氮和全磷均具有较高的变异性,经济林土壤中的有效磷和全氮的变异较大,纯林和混交林土壤养分的变异性总体上较低;土壤有效磷、碱解氮和全氮平均含量在不同林型中都表现为0-10cm〉10-30cm〉30-50cm,即随着土层的加深养分含量降低;土壤有效磷含量竹林显著高于纯林,不同土层竹林与经济林的碱解氮含量显著高于纯林和混交林的;经济林的全氮含量较其他林型的较低,而全磷的含量却较高。 相似文献
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河岸水稻缓冲带宽度对排水中氮磷流失的影响 总被引：3，自引：3，他引：3
研究表明，在正常条件下，可溶态P、NH4-N和NO3-N在稻田水平方向的扩散距离较短，一般小于10m；扩散距离：可溶态P〈NH4-N〈NO3-N。缓冲带宽度（0～90m）对排水中可溶态P、NH4-N和NO3-N的浓度有很大的影响，但这种影响随施肥后时间的延长而减小。宽度大于15m的水稻缓冲带可显著地降低排水中氮磷的流失，因此在沿河用不施肥的水稻带也可有效地控制氮、磷的流失，替代一般的缓冲带，其机理与湿地相似。 相似文献
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We assessed the impact of clearcutting on small mammals in riparian areas and evaluated riparian buffer strips as a tool for conserving small mammals in managed forests. Over two summers, we trapped small mammals of seven species in riparian areas in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Communities of small mammals were compared across three different habitat types: (1) clearcut to the stream bank, (2) clearcut with a 30 m riparian buffer strip, and (3) control (no logging). Species richness was significantly lower in clearcuts than in controls and buffers. On clearcut sites, creeping voles were more abundant, but red-backed voles and dusky shrews were less abundant than at the control sites. At sites with riparian buffer strips, both voles were present in numbers similar to those found in controls, but dusky shrews were less common. Significantly more deer mice and creeping voles were infested with bot flies at clearcut sites than at buffer sites, and no animals were infested at any of the control sites. Riparian reserves appear to be useful in reducing the short-term impacts of clearcutting on small mammal communities, though they do not eliminate these impacts altogether. 相似文献
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川北紫色土小流域植被建设的水土保持效应 总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4
定量评价林草植被的水土保持功能对合理指导紫色土区的流域综合治理具有重要作用。该研究基于鹤鸣观流域Ⅱ号支沟1985-2001年逐日径流量和输沙量,结合实测日降雨量,采用Spearman秩相关统计法分析流域径流和输沙变化趋势,应用流量历时曲线和双累积曲线分析流域植被建设实施前后径流和输沙变化特征,并定量评估植被建设的水土保持效应。结果表明:结合防护林营造时间和双累积曲线分析,把水文序列分为基准期(1985-1990年)和评价期(1991-2001年),相比基准期,评价期小流域的年均降水量减少约8.1%,而年径流深和年输沙模数却分别减少34.6%和89.9%,说明以植被建设为主的人类活动起到重要作用。同时,植被建设的削洪增枯效果明显,评价期的丰水日径流深和平水日径流深较基准期分别减少了84.2%和76.3%,而枯水日径流深却增加了650.0%;结合双累积曲线和分离判别法可知,植被建设在径流和输沙变化中的贡献率分别达92.9%和94.3%,大规模的植被建设在减少土壤侵蚀的同时也减少了产流量,考虑到水安全问题,未来植被建设应合理规划。 相似文献
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北京山区河岸植被的水土保持效益 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
通过野外简易径流小区的放水冲刷试验,研究北京山区河岸带不同植被类型水土保持效果差异。试验设计4,6,8L/min 3种上方来水流量以及6种植被类型小区坡面,冲刷历时31min,试验过程收集径流泥沙样,分析不同径流小区的产流产沙特征。结果表明:(1)各植被类型小区平均总产流产沙量(43.29L/m~2,0.71kg/m~2)均显著小于裸坡下平均总产流产沙量(65.86L/m~2,3.21kg/m~2)(p0.05)。植被具有明显的减流减沙效益,且减沙效益(78.66%)大于减流效益(36.16%);(2)不同植被类型间减流减沙效果不同,随着放水流量的上升,坡面产流速率、产沙速率不断上升,其中以狗牙根小区平均产流速率(6.16L/min)、平均产沙速率(55.50g/min)最小,水土保持效益较好;(3)不同植被类型小区稳定入渗速率差异显著(p0.05),均大于裸坡条件下的稳定入渗速率(42mm/h),其中以狗牙根小区坡面的径流稳定入渗速率最大(129.0mm/h)。综上所述,植被具有明显的蓄水保土效益,且不同的植被类型间减流减沙效果差异显著。研究结果为北京山区河岸带进行生态环境安全建设以及生态修复提供了基础理论依据,并且为河岸边坡的植被修复物种选择提供了参考依据。 相似文献
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The invasive, non-native herb, giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense), is becoming increasingly common in riparian corridors throughout North America and Europe. Despite its prevalence, there has been limited study of its ecological impacts. We investigated the effects of knotweed invasion on the abundance and diversity of forest understory plants, and the quantity and nutrient quality of leaf-litter inputs, in riparian forests in western Washington, USA. Among 39 sampling locations, knotweed stem density ranged from 0 to 8.8 m−2. Richness and abundance (cover or density) of native herbs, shrubs, and juvenile trees (?3 m tall) were negatively correlated with knotweed density. Where knotweed was present (>5.3 stems m−2), litter mass of native species was reduced by 70%. Carbon:nitrogen ratio of knotweed litter was 52:1, a value 38-58% higher than that of native woody species (red alder [Alnus rubra] and willow [Salix spp.]). Resorption of foliar N prior to leaf drop was 76% in knotweed but only 5-33% among native woody species. By displacing native species and reducing nutrient quality of litter inputs, knotweed invasion has the potential to cause long-term changes in the structure and functioning of riparian forests and adjacent aquatic habitats. 相似文献
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Concentrations of Free and Conjugated Estrogens at Different Landscape Positions in an Agricultural Watershed Receiving Poultry Litter 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Sudarshan K. Dutta Shreeram P. Inamdar Jerry Tso Diana S. Aga 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2012,223(5):2821-2836
Animal hormones can enter the aquatic environment along with runoff as a result of manure or litter application on agricultural landscapes. Our understanding of the transport of these hormones and their concentrations at various points along the watershed drainage is however limited. We investigated the transport of naturally produced poultry hormones in an agricultural watershed located on coastal plain soils of Delaware receiving land application of raw poultry manure. The objective of this study was to determine the concentrations of free and conjugated forms of estrogens in agricultural runoff at selected landscape positions in the agricultural watershed. Estrogen concentrations were determined for surface water, soil water, and runoff sediment. Estrogen forms that were analyzed were: Estrone (E1), Estradiol (E2?? and E2??), Estriol (E3), and their sulfate and glucuronide conjugates. Poultry litter application occurred at a rate of 9 Mg ha?1 in early spring (April 2010). Sampling was performed for surface runoff, subsurface drainage, and sediment for nine storm events extending over 187 days before and after manure application (March?COctober 2010). Runoff was collected from the field edge, upland and lowland riparian positions and from the stream. Samples were analyzed by for liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Concentrations of estrogens were low (<20 ng l?1) for most of the samples and decreased from the field edge into the riparian zone. Estrogens were not detected in soil water and runoff sediments. Overall, this study suggests that manure application practices at our sites in Delaware such as incorporation of litter into the soil likely reduced the concentrations of estrogens in runoff and reduced the threat posed to aquatic ecosystems. 相似文献
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Urbanization changes bird community structure during the breeding season but little is known about its effects on migrating birds. We examined patterns of habitat use by birds at the local and landscape level during 2002 spring migration at 71 riparian plots along an urban gradient in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Using linear regression, we examined variation in relative density, species richness, and evenness of four migratory guilds associated with natural land covers and building area at four scales (50, 100, 250, 500 m radial buffers). We also examined the influence of local vegetation using multiple regression models. As building area increased, riparian forests tended to be narrower and have fewer native trees and shrubs. In general, native birds were positively associated with tree cover (within 250-500 m of stream) and native vegetation, and negatively with building area (within 250 m); exotic species responded inversely to these measures. Short-distance migrants and permanent residents displayed the weakest responses to landscape and vegetation measures. Neotropical migrants responded strongest to landscape and vegetation measures and were positively correlated with areas of wide riparian forests and less development (>250 m). Resident Neotropical migrants increased with wider riparian forests (>500 m) without buildings, while en-route migrants utilized areas having a wide buffer of tree cover (250-500 m) regardless of buildings; both were positively associated with native vegetation composition and mature trees. Consequently, developed areas incorporating high native tree cover are important for conserving Neotropical migrants during stopover. 相似文献