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Abies grandis
Abies grandis (grand fir, giant fir, lowland white fir, great silver fir, western white fir, Vancouver fir, or Oregon fir) is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest and Northern California of North America, occurring at altitudes of sea level to 1,800 m.
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Acacia melanoxylon
Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as the Australian blackwood, is an Acacia species native in South eastern Australia.
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Acacia pravissima
Acacia pravissima (Ovens wattle or wedge-leaved wattle), is a species of evergreen shrub in the Fabaceae family native to Victoria, the South West Slopes and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.
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Accropode
Accropode blocks are man-made unreinforced concrete objects designed to resist the action of waves on breakwaters and coastal structures.
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Acer campestre
Acer campestre, known as the field maple, is a flowering plant species in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.
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Acer circinatum
Acer circinatum (vine maple) is a species of maple native to western North America, from southwest British Columbia to northern California, usually within of the Pacific Ocean coast, found along the Columbia Gorge and Coastal Forest.
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Acer macrophyllum
Acer macrophyllum, the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus Acer.
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Acer pseudoplatanus
Acer pseudoplatanus, known as the sycamore in the United Kingdom and the sycamore maple in the United States, is a flowering plant species in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.
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Adiantum
Adiantum, the walking fern or maidenhair fern, is a genus of about 250 species of ferns in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae, though some researchers place it in its own family, Adiantaceae.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Alnus glutinosa
Alnus glutinosa, the common alder, black alder, European alder or just alder, is a species of tree in the family Betulaceae, native to most of Europe, southwest Asia and northern Africa.
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Alnus rhombifolia
Alnus rhombifolia, the white alder, is an alder tree native to western North America, from British Columbia and Washington east to western Montana, southeast to the Sierra Nevada, and south through the Peninsular Ranges and Colorado Desert oases in Southern California.
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Alnus rubra
Alnus rubra, the red alder, is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to western North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana).
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Aquatic animal
A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.
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Aquatic ecosystem
An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem in a body of water.
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Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).
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Aquilegia
Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals Puzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L. (2011) Evolution of Aquilegia spur length diversity through changes in cell anisotropy.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Bank (geography)
In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biodiversity action plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems.
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Biofilter
Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants.
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Biome
A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.
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Bioswale
Bioswales are landscape elements designed to concentrate or remove debris and pollution out of surface runoff water.
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Bosque
A bosque is a type of gallery forest habitat found along the riparian flood plains of stream and river banks in the southwestern United States.
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Bracken
Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae.
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Bulrush
Bulrushes is the vernacular name, there are other local variants.
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Carex
Carex is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grassy plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books).
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Carex stricta
Carex stricta is a species of sedge known by the common names upright sedge and tussock sedge.
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Carpinus betulus
Carpinus betulus, commonly known as the European or common hornbeam, is a hornbeam native to Western Asia and central, eastern, and southern Europe, including southern England.
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Casuarina cunninghamiana
Casuarina cunninghamiana is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is the region comprising the central part of Europe.
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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, known as Port Orford cedar or Lawson cypress, is a species of conifer in the genus Chamaecyparis, family Cupressaceae.
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Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, and railways.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Constructed wetland
A constructed wetland (CW) is an artificial wetland to treat municipal or industrial wastewater, greywater or stormwater runoff.
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Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.
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Cornus nuttallii
Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood or mountain dogwood, is a species of dogwood native to western North America from the lowlands of southern British Columbia to the mountains of southern California, with an inland population in central Idaho.
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Cornus sericea
Cornus sericea, syn. C. stolonifera, Swida sericea, red osier/red-osier dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east.
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Denitrification
Denitrification is a microbially facilitated process where nitrate is reduced and ultimately produces molecular nitrogen (N2) through a series of intermediate gaseous nitrogen oxide products.
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Devil's club
Devil's club or devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) is a large understory shrub endemic to the arboreal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, but also disjunct on islands in Lake Superior.
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Dryopteris
Dryopteris, commonly called wood fern, male fern (referring in particular to Dryopteris filix-mas), or buckler fern, is a genus of about 250 species of ferns with distribution in Eastern Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific islands, with the highest species diversity in eastern Asia.
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Ecological succession
Ecological succession is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Eleocharis
Eleocharis is a virtually cosmopolitan genus of 250 or more species of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.
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Eleocharis obtusa
Eleocharis obtusa is a species of spikesedge known by the common name blunt spikerush.
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Eleocharis quadrangulata
Eleocharis quadrangulata is a species of spikesedge known by the common names square-stem spikerush and four-angled spikerush.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Environmental resource management
Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Erosion control
Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction.
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Eucalyptus bridgesiana
Eucalyptus bridgesiana, commonly known as apple box or but-but, is a medium to large sized tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
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Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, the river red gum, is a tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
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Eucalyptus melliodora
Eucalyptus melliodora, commonly known as yellow box, is a medium-sized to occasionally tall eucalypt.
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Eucalyptus viminalis
Eucalyptus viminalis, the manna gum, ribbon gum, white gum, or viminalis, is an Australian eucalypt.
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Fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Festuca californica
Festuca californica is a species of grass known by the common name California fescue.
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Field (agriculture)
In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock.
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Flood-meadow
A flood-meadow (or floodmeadow) is an area of grassland or pasture beside a river, subject to seasonal flooding.
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Floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.
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Fodder
Fodder, a type of animal feed, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.
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Fraxinus excelsior
Fraxinus excelsior, known as the ash, or European ash or common ash to distinguish it from other types of ash, is a flowering plant species in the olive family Oleaceae.
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Fraxinus latifolia
Fraxinus latifolia, the Oregon ash, is a member of the ash genus Fraxinus, native to western North America.
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Freshwater swamp forest
Freshwater swamp forests, or flooded forests, are forests which are inundated with freshwater, either permanently or seasonally.
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Gallery forest
Gallery forests are forests that form as corridors along rivers or wetlands and project into landscapes that are otherwise only sparsely treed such as savannas, grasslands, or deserts.
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Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: γῆ, gê, "earth"; μορφή, morphḗ, "form"; and λόγος, lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface.
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Green belt
A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas.
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Greenway (landscape)
A greenway is "a strip of undeveloped land near an urban area, set aside for recreational use or environmental protection".
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Herb
In general use, herbs are plants with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, in medicine, or as fragrances.
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Hydric soil
Hydric soil is soil which is permanently or seasonally saturated by water, resulting in anaerobic conditions, as found in wetlands.
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Iris (plant)
Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers.
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Iris virginica
Iris virginica, with the common name Virginia iris, is a perennial species of flowering plant, native to eastern North America.
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Juglans regia
Juglans regia, the Persian walnut, English walnut, Circassian walnut, or especially in Great Britain, common walnut, is an Old World walnut tree species native to the region stretching from the Balkans eastward to the Himalayas and southwest China.
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Juncus
Juncus is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes.
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Kunzea ericoides
Kunzea ericoides, commonly known as kānuka, kanuka, white tea-tree or burgan, is a tree or shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New Zealand.
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Land rehabilitation
Land rehabilitation is the process of returning the land in a given area to some degree of its former state, after some process (industry, natural disasters, etc.) has resulted in its damage.
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Landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Leptospermum obovatum
Leptospermum obovatum is a flowering shrub in the Myrtaceae family.
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Leymus condensatus
Leymus condensatus, with the common name giant wildrye and syn. Elymus condensatus, is a wild rye grass native to California and northern Mexico.
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Logging
Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
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Lonicera involucrata
Lonicera involucrata, the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry, is a species of honeysuckle native to northern and western North America, from southern Alaska east across boreal Canada to Quebec, and south through the western United States to California, and to Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico.
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Malus sylvestris
Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, is a species of the genus Malus, native to Europe.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.
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Melaleuca citrina
Melaleuca citrina, commonly known as common red, crimson or lemon bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales and Victoria in Australia.
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Melaleuca ericifolia
Melaleuca ericifolia, commonly known as swamp paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and the genus Melaleuca, native to south-eastern Australia.
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Melaleuca paludicola
Melaleuca paludicola, commonly known as river bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.
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Melica californica
Melica californica is a species of grass known by the common name California melic.
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Mimulus
Mimulus is a plant genus in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae.
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Natural Sequence Farming
Natural Sequence Farming is a method of landscape regeneration devised by the Australian agricultural pioneer, Peter Andrews, in the 1970s.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.
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Oemleria
Oemleria cerasiformis, a shrub commonly known as osoberry or Indian plum, is the sole species in genus Oemleria.
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Outwelling
Outwelling is a hypothesized process by which coastal salt marshes and mangroves, “hot spots” of production, produce an excess amount of carbon each year and “outwell” these organic nutrients and detritus into the surrounding coastal embayment or ocean, thus increasing the productivity of local fisheries or other coastal plants.
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Peltandra virginica
Peltandra virginica is a plant of the Araceae family known by the common names green arrow arum and tuckahoe.
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Picea sitchensis
Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost 100 m (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).
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Pioneer species
Pioneer species are hardy species which are the first to colonize previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems.
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Plant litter
Litterfall, plant litter, leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, or duff, is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.
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Platanus racemosa
Platanus racemosa is a species of plane tree known by several common names, including California sycamore, western sycamore, California plane tree, and in North American Spanish aliso.
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Polypodium
Polypodium is a genus of between 75-100 species of true ferns, widely distributed throughout the world, with the highest species diversity in the tropics.
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Polystichum
Polystichum is a genus of about 260 species of ferns with a cosmopolitan distribution.
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Populus alba
Populus alba, commonly called abele,Webb, C. J.; Sykes, W. R.; Garnock-Jones, P. J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand.
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Populus fremontii
Populus fremontii, commonly known as Fremont's cottonwood or the Alamo cottonwood, is a cottonwood (and thus a poplar) native to riparian zones of the Southwestern United States and northern through central Mexico.
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Populus nigra
Populus nigra, the black poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar, the type species of section Aigeiros of the genus Populus, native to Europe, southwest and central Asia, and northwest Africa.
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Populus tremuloides
Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen.
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Populus trichocarpa
Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America.
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Prunus emarginata
Prunus emarginata, the bitter cherry or Oregon cherry, is a species of Prunus native to western North America, from British Columbia south to Baja California, and east as far as western Wyoming and New Mexico.
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Quercus agrifolia
Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak or coast live oak, is a highly variable, often shrubby evergreen oak tree, a type of live oak, native to the California Floristic Province.
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Quercus garryana
Quercus garryana, the Garry oak, Oregon white oak, Oregon oak, or Hu'dshnam, from the traditional Klamath language, is a tree species with a range stretching from southern California to southwestern British Columbia.
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Quercus robur
Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.
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Rhododendron occidentale
Rhododendron occidentale, the western azalea or California azalea, is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America (the other is Rhododendron albiflorum).
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Ribes
Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Riparian buffer
A riparian buffer or stream buffer is a vegetated area (a "buffer strip") near a stream, usually forested, which helps shade and partially protect the stream from the impact of adjacent land uses.
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Riparian forest
A riparian forest or riparian woodland is a forested or wooded area of land adjacent to a body of water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland, estuary, canal, sink or reservoir.
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Riparian water rights
Riparian water rights (or simply riparian rights) is a system for allocating water among those who possess land along its path.
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Riparian-zone restoration
Riparian-zone restoration is the ecological restoration of riparian-zone habitats of streams, rivers, springs, lakes, floodplains, and other hydrologic ecologies.
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Riprap
Riprap, also known as rip rap, rip-rap, shot rock, rock armor or rubble, is rock or other material used to armor shorelines, streambeds, bridge abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against scour and water or ice erosion.
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River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
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Root
In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.
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Rosa pisocarpa
Rosa pisocarpa is a species of rose known by the common name cluster rose or swamp rose.
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Rubus
Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with 250–700 species.
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Sagittaria lancifolia
Sagittaria lancifolia, the bulltongue arrowhead, is a perennial, monocot plant in the family Alismataceae, genus Sagittaria, with herbaceous growth patterns.
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Sagittaria latifolia
Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, duck-potato, Indian potato, or wapato.
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Salix alba
Salix alba, the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.
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Salix fragilis
Salix fragilis, with the common names crack willow and brittle willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and Western Asia.
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Salix lasiolepis
Salix lasiolepis (arroyo willow) is a species of willow native to western North America.
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Salix lucida
Salix lucida, the shining willow, Pacific willow, or whiplash willow, is a species of willow native to northern and western North America, occurring in wetland habitats.
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Schoenoplectus americanus
Schoenoplectus americanus (syn. Scirpus americanus) is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names chairmaker's bulrush and Olney's three-square bulrush.
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Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (syn. Scirpus validus) is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names softstem bulrush, grey club-rush, and great bulrush.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
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Seep (hydrology)
A seep is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the earth's surface from an underground aquifer.
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Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoia sempervirens Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).
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Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.
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Silviculture
Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values.
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Soil conservation
Soil conservation is the preventing of soil loss from erosion or reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination.
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Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.
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Spiraea douglasii
Spiraea douglasii is a species of flowering plant in the rose family native to western North America.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
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Symphoricarpos albus
Symphoricarpos albus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry.
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Taxus brevifolia
Taxus brevifolia, the Pacific yew or western yew, is a conifer native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
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Thermal pollution
Thermal pollution is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature.
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Thuja plicata
Thuja plicata, commonly called western or Pacific redcedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America.
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Tilia cordata
Tilia cordata (small-leaved lime, occasionally littleleaf linden or small-leaved linden) is a species of Tilia native to much of Europe.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.
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Turbidity
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.
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Ulmus laevis
Ulmus laevis Pall.
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Ulmus minor
Ulmus minor Mill., the field elm, is by far the most polymorphic of the European species, although its taxonomy remains a matter of contention.
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Umbellularia
Umbellularia californica is a large hardwood tree native to coastal forests of California, as well as to coastal forests extending into Oregon.
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Upper Hunter Shire
The Upper Hunter Shire is a local government area in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
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Várzea forest
A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome.
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Vernal pool
Vernal pools, also called vernal ponds or ephemeral pools, are temporary pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals.
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Vulnerable waters
Vulnerable waters refer to geographically-isolated wetlands (GIWs) and to ephemeral and intermittent streams.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.
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Water-meadow
A water-meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity.
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Wetland
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
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Wildlife
Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.
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Wildlife corridor
A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging).
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.
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Woodland
Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.
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Woodwardia
Woodwardia (chain fern) is a genus of 14 to 20 species of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone
