Impacts of Delayed Drawdown on Water Quality and Aquatic Biota in Seasonal Wetlands of the Grassland Ecological Area, Los Banos, California

The 178,000-acre Grassland Ecological Area in California’s San Joaquin Valley is managed to provide overwintering habitat to waterfowl on the Pacific Flyway. The major management activity is the fall flooding and spring drawdown of wetlands, timed to optimize the availability of forage vegetation an...

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Main Author: Poole, Kyle Nathan
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2009
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/58
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=theses