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Sediment Delivery, Flood Control, and Physical Ecosystem Services in Southern California Chaparral Landscapes
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2018
Springer Series on Environmental Management
Southern California chaparral environments, with steep mountain slopes, semi-arid climate, and non-cohesive soils, are very erosive landscapes. Wildfre is the dominant ecological disturbance event in chaparral and it greatly accelerates fooding and erosion, which are directly and/or indirectly related to the loss of the protective vegetation. Since the 1920s, dams and debris basins have been constructed by public works agencies to protect the growing population and infrastructure of southern
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68303-4_7
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