Chapter 1: Defining Arizona’s Riparian Areas and their Importance to the Landscape
Defining Riparian Areas, page 3
- All the different definitions for riparian areas have certain common points:
- adjacent to a body of water
- have no clearly defined boundaries
- transition zones between aquatic and terrestrial environments
- linear in nature
- The three main characteristics
to define riparian
areas are:
Figure 1.22. The three main characteristics that define riparian areas in order of priority are: a) water/hydrology, b) soils/landform and c) vegetation.
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