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riparian

[ UK /ɹɪpˈe‍əɹi‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream
    riparian land

How To Use riparian In A Sentence

  • There is a great deal of interest in research on riparian management and water quality in the western United States.
  • The combination of owl, murrelet, and riparian protection will eventually provide at least 520,000 acres of mature forest habitat.
  • The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
  • The bureaucratic control by government over the settlement process in Australia caused the demise of the common law system of water allocation by riparian right and the appropriation of rights to water by the government.
  • West Texas generally offers landscapes of muted colors - sepia earth and vast sun-bleached skies - but this canyon cradles a riparian forest of big-tooth maple, alligator juniper, and chinquapin oak.
  • ‘Large woody debris provides shelter for fish and insects, stabilizes caving banks, and restores riparian habitats,’ says Shields.
  • During this 3-year study, they found that the three-zone riparian buffer was effective at reducing the amounts of two herbicides, atrazine and alachlor, that entered the shallow groundwater and surface runoff.
  • However, Mesozoic examples of insect wood boring occur in petrifactions, many of which were deposited in drier, more riparian habitats.
  • Riparian corridors along river bottoms may hold lots of whitetails, which raid nearby farmland planted in alfalfa, sunflower, soybeans and corn. 100 Best Public-Land Hunts: North Dakota
  • Decreased frequency and intensity of physical disturbances will result in decreased species richness and biodiversity in riverine, deltaic, and riparian habitats. Key findings, science gaps, and recommendations for freshwater ecosystems in the ACIA
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