Riparian corridors are “buffers of trees, shrubs and grass along
waterways.”
Conserving streamside buffers is socially valuable, economically
viable and ecologically necessary. It costs more and takes
longer to restore water quality than to protect it in the first
place. Modest rules to protect narrow buffers can be fair to
landowners, while preserving clean water for the entire state.
The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and
Wetlands
VALUING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - TOWARD BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL
DECISION–MAKING
Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic
and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water Science and Technology
Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies
Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through
three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a
transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring
region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms
result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant,
stowaway, *corridor* and unaided."
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three
broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a
transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring
region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms
result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant,
stowaway, corridor and unaided."
