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David M. Merritt
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 73
Citations - 7484
David M. Merritt is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Riparian zone & Vegetation. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 70 publications receiving 6610 citations. Previous affiliations of David M. Merritt include United States Department of Agriculture & Umeå University.
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The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards
N. LeRoy Poff,Brian Richter,Angela Arthington,Stuart E. Bunn,Robert J. Naiman,Eloise Kendy,Mike Acreman,Colin Apse,Brian P. Bledsoe,Mary C. Freeman,James A. Henriksen,Robert B. Jacobson,Jonathan G. Kennen,David M. Merritt,Jay O'Keeffe,Julian D. Olden,Kevin H. Rogers,Rebecca Tharme,Andrew Warner +18 more
TL;DR: The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA) as mentioned in this paper is a framework for assessing environmental flow needs for many streams and rivers simultaneously to foster development and implementation of environmental flow standards at the regional scale.
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Homogenization of regional river dynamics by dams and global biodiversity implications.
TL;DR: Long-term streamflow records are used on intermediate-sized rivers across the continental United States to show that dams have homogenized the flow regimes on third- through seventh-order rivers in 16 historically distinctive hydrologic regions over the course of the 20th century.
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River restoration: OPINION
Ellen Wohl,Paul L. Angermeier,Brian P. Bledsoe,G. Mathias Kondolf,Larry MacDonnell,David M. Merritt,Margaret A. Palmer,N. LeRoy Poff,David G. Tarboton +8 more
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The role of hydrochory in structuring riparian and wetland vegetation
TL;DR: The state of the art of the discipline is defined and hydrochory is defined to be an important vector for the spread of many invasive species, but there is also the potential for enhancing ecosystem restoration by improving or restoring water dispersal pathways.
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Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to organize riparian plants into non-phylogenetic groupings of species with shared traits that are related to components of hydrologic regime: life history, reproductive strategy, morphology, adaptations to fluvial disturbance and adaptations to water availability.