Understanding Large River-Floodplain EcosystemsSignificant economic advantages and increased biodiversity and stability would result from restoration of impaired systems

摘要: have modified large river-floodplain ecosystems to the extent that it is difficult recognize major variables once regulated systems and account for surviving biota. The natural functions of these practically disappeared, principally because modifications tended prevent regular flooding. Studying other now welldefined land/water boundaries has not only produced two classes ecologists, terrestrial aquatic, but in aquatic ecology also given rise limnologists stream ecologists whose theories usually presume relatively static water levels (Junk et al. 1989). Forbes (1895) United States Antipa (1911, 1928) Europe recognized some ecological attributes value river-flood-