Sampling event dataset for ecological monitoring of riparian restoration effort in Colorado foothills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The foothills and shortgrass prairie ecosystems of Colorado, United States, have undergone substantial and sustained anthropogenic habitat change over the past two centuries. Riparian systems have been dramatically altered by agriculture, hydrological engineering, urbanisation and the introduction of non-native invasive species. In 2016, Denver Botanic Gardens began a restoration effort of Deer Creek which seeks to modify the hydrology of the creek by mimicking the effects of beaver dams with artificial structures. The site, owned by the US Army Core of Engineers and managed by Denver Botanic Gardens, had been the subject of previous botanical surveys. With the initiation of the restoration project, permanent transects were established along the stream and are sampled fo

SUBMITTER: Levy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7148387 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature