Requiem for the Santa Cruz : An Environmental History of an Arizona River /

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"Requiem for the Santa Cruz is the natural history of the life and death of a Southwestern river. The book is a model for explaining changes in river systems and the consequences"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Webb, Robert H. (Auteur), Turner, R. M. (Raymond M.) (Auteur), Johnson, R. Roy (Raymond Roy), 1932- (Auteur), Betancourt, Julio L. (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Fontana, Bernard L. (author of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Stream ecology.
Natural history.
NATURE > Ecology.
Stream ecology > Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
Natural history > Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
North America > Santa Cruz River.
Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • List of illustrations
  • Foreword / by Bernard L. Fontana
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • 1. The problem of riverine change
  • 2. Characteristics of a desert river
  • 3. Causes of arroyo downcutting
  • 4. Perennial flow and discontinuous arroyos, 1691-1872
  • 5. Land use, climate, and floods, 1873-1888
  • 6. Arroyo downcutting and widening, 1889-1915
  • 7. Water development and the Great Mesquite Forest, 1916-1942
  • 8. The city and the arroyo, 1943-1975
  • 9. Arroyo management in the time of floods, 1976-1995
  • 10. Channel filling and river restoration efforts, 1996-2012
  • 11. Summary of the past and some possible futures
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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