Reports

For a full list of reports and publications created during Cosumnes Phase 2, go here.

We reared juvenile Chinook salmon for two consecutive flood seasons within various habitats of the Cosumnes River and its floodplain (California) to compare growth rates of in river and newly created floodplain habitats.

In this thematic area of CRG Phase 2, we focused on three primary areas for data management: mapping, data integration, and digital repositories for long-term ecosystem monitoring.

Riparian habitat in California is one of the most productive and valuable habitats for all forms of wildlife. Yet this is also one of the most threatened habitats, with only about 5% of the state’s original riparian habitat remaining.

The overall goal of Task 3 is to understand how the flood cycle influences the controls of primary and secondary production and how and to what degree this aquatic production supports consumers in riparian habitats.

Our primary intent in this study was to measure riparian evapotranspiration at two different sites within the Cosumnes watershed.

The objective of this section was to develop a hydrologic model for a river-reach/floodplain area of the Cosumnes River and to provide quantitative analyses of many of the key characteristics governing perched groundwater hydrology.

This page summarizes and links to the major portions of the Groundwater Vegetation Interactions for Cosumnes Phase 2.

To better understand how restoration of riparian vegetation is influenced by a variety of factors, such as physical processes, especially inundation, and the multiple methods of restoration (both active and semi-passive) that land managers have used in the Cosumnes floodplain, we developed four complementary approaches to addressing different facets of assessing restoration outcomes.

This program is an attempt to transform the methods discussed in the companion paper into a portable computer program so that they can be used by researchers and managers on other watersheds in order to characterize a flood regime.