Riparian Zone Effects

Riparian inputs into aquatic habitats have been shown that they have a direct effect on the productivity of primary and higher order consumers. This dependence on the terrestrial environment for inputs into the system allows for a variety of interactions between the different trophic levels to take place (Wallace et al. 1999, as cited in L. E. England & A.D. Rosemond 2004). Riparian habitats have the ability to not only direct the degree of intensity of the physical, chemical and biological factors within the aquatic environment beneath them but can also influence the relationship…