Historic interrelationships of humans and the ecosystems of the Middle Rio Grande Basin
- Wingswept Research, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
An ongoing study of the environmental history of the Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico, is revealing major impacts on and changes to ecosystems over the past 455 years. Various land uses, such as grazing, irrigation farming, logging, and constructing flood control features, combined with climatic fluctuations have adversely produced changes in stream flow-morphology, ground water levels, topsoils, biotic communities, and individual species. Indigenous human populations have been adversely impacted by these modifications as well. Continued land-water use-impacts from a rapidly increasing regional population portend continuing changes and major challenges for natural and human resource management agencies and organizations.
- OSTI ID:
- 248071
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9504248-; TRN: IM9628%%171
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Interior west global change workshop, Ft. Collins, CO (United States), 25-27 Apr 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Interior West global change workshop; Tinus, R.W. [ed.] [Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ (United States). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station]; PB: 138 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Change in fish fauna as indication of aquatic ecosystem condition in Rio Grande de Morelia-Lago de Cuitzeo Basin, Mexico
Use of a dynamic simulation model to understand nitrogen cycling in the middle Rio Grande, NM.