Forest Landscape Restoration: Linkages with Stream Fishes of the Southern United States

摘要: The southern United States with over 600 native freshwater fishes supports one of the richest fish faunas on Earth, but many in region are imperiled. Historic and current land use dramatically altered region’s landscape its streams rivers consequently disrupted important linkages between forests fishes. Impacts to stream river systems occurred three overlapping developmental eras, each which had unique often profound effects forests, fishes, or aquatic habitats: era agricultural timber exploitation; dam building channel modification; population growth, industrialization, urbanization. Benefits that could emerge from restoration forest landscapes including: wood as habitat cover for a substrate food production, spawning substrate; role streamside moderating water temperature; floodplain by forage reproduce. Many derive multiple benefits instream wood. faces major challenges conserving not only entire richly diverse system streams, rivers, wetlands fauna they support. I believe be an extremely positive tool meeting these rehabilitation warmwater is possible knowledge without shifts corridor management strategies. However, implementing settings challenge given their past uses management, regardless potential ecological services provide. long-term challenge, if accomplished, will managing riparian sustainably composed highly differing overlain fragmented matrix landownership attitudes about land.