The River Corridor Habitat Dynamics Project is a unit within the Ecology Branch, Columbia Environmental Research Center. The RCHD conducts physical habitat research in streams and rivers. Currently, the RCHD is working on streams in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri and Arkansas and on the Missouri River.

 

Boat.jpg (10076 bytes) The Lower Missouri River Corridor Habitat Dynamics Project studies physical river habitat in a heavily engineered river.  The project is designed to improve understanding of habitat loss and creation and to provide a stronger scientific basis for rehabilitation. Click on the image to the left to read more about it. 

 

The Ozarks Stream Geomorphology Project studies the effects of land use and climate change on Ozarks streams and their ecology. The project is designed to provide land managers with information that will help conserve aquatic habitat in the context of environmental change.  Click on the image to the right to read more about it.

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Return links:
Back to the Columbia Environmental Research Center.
Back to the Missouri River InfoLINK.

 



River Studies Station

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URL: http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/rss/

USGS-Biological Resources Division, Columbia Environmental Research Center

4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, MO 65201

Contacts:  robb_jacobson@usgs.gov

Last Modification: 02/02/05