Adam S. Birken

ORCID: 0000-0002-5836-4419
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Research Areas
  • Water Quality and Resources Studies
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Archaeology and Natural History
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Colorado State University
2006-2011

Significant ecological, hydrologic, and geomorphic changes have occurred during the 20th century along many large floodplain rivers in American Southwest. Native Populus forests declined, while exotic Eurasian shrub, Tamarix, has proliferated now dominates most ecosystems. Photographs from late 19th early centuries illustrate wide river channels with largely bare in-channel landforms shrubby higher channel margin floodplains. However, by mid-20th century, floodplains supporting dense Tamarix...

10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1103:potiaf]2.0.co;2 article EN Ecological Applications 2006-06-01
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