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Relating Riparian Vegetation to Present and Future Streamflows The intense demand for river water in arid regions is resulting in widespread changes in riparian vegetation. We present a direct gradient method to predict the vegetation change resulting from a proposed upstream dam or diversion. Our method begins with the definition of vegetative cover types, based on a census of the existing vegetation in a set of 1 x 2 m plots. A hydraulic model determines the discharge necessary to inundate each plot. We use the hydrologic record, as defined by a flow duration curve, to determine the inundation duration for each plot. This allows us to position cover types along a gradient of inundation duration. A change in river management results in a new flow duration curve, which is used... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Ecological Applications, Environmental impacts, bottomland vegetation, dam, discharge, All tags... diversion, flow duration, gunnison, hydraulic model, riparian vegetation, twinspan, vegetation change, Fewer tags Serial discontinuities in a Rocky mountain river. I. Distribution and abundance of plecoptera Samples were taken year-round at eleven sites along the altitudinal profile (2900-1400 m a.s.l.) of the Gunnison River, a 329 km tributary of the Colorado River, to document the distribution of the Plecoptera and to evaluate responses to hypolimnial-release dams in the headwaters and middle reaches. Twenty-two species were present, with the greatest species richness occurring in an unregulated segment upstream of the middle reach dams; average nymphal biomass over the study period (175 organisms, 395 mg dry mass m?2) was also greatest in this segment. Only four species (58 organisms, 48 mg m?2) were present in the tailwaters of the headwater dam and values were greatly reduced (nine species; 35 organisms, 180 mg... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Concept, Dams, Discontinuity, Gunnison, Plecoptera, All tags... Regulated Rivers: Research & Management, River, Rivers, Serial, Stoneflies, Stream regulation, Zoobenthos, Fewer tags A new method to produce categorical streamflow forecasts Categorical forecasts of streamflow are important for effective water resources management. Typically, these are obtained by generating ensemble forecasts of streamflow and counting the proportion of ensembles in the desired category. Here we develop a simple and direct method to produce categorical streamflow forecasts at multiple sites. The method involves predicting the probability of the leading mode (or principal component) of the basin streamflows above a given threshold and subsequently translating the predicted probabilities to all the sites in the basin. The categorical probabilistic forecasts are obtained via logistic regression using a set of large-scale climate predictors. Application to categorical... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: American Geophysical Union, Gunnison, Water Resources Research, categorical forecast, climate, All tags... exceedance probability, logistic regression, multisite, Fewer tags