What is "riparian"

Usage examples of "riparian".

This important plant holds the soils of riparian habitats and also creates fertile micro-climates, adapting its shape and behavior to the amount of moisture it can get and to the elevation in which it grows, which relates then to the temperature that it must endure.

Riparian lobster, steamed ripa root, saut6ed Vermilion mushrooms, a side of chubba, and Myklenian ale.

The elimination of the beavers and over-grazing, especially of the riparian habitats, altered the hydrology of the continent.

I was thinking perhaps some Ashtan steak, sauteed Riparian squid with klavva nut filling, orange-glazed mentha root with Etarian coffee, and something as decadent as a Sassan God for dessert might be in order.

Most of the riparian habitat would be returning naturally to climax, but those present areas of private property where human abuse has been long, would need intensive help of the permaculture guided succession.

Interposes between this riparian woodland and the river is often a fringe of the evergreen, shrubby composite called batamote or seepwillow.

Taking a lead from our elders in the rainforest we would also be searching for plants that mimic the natural succession toward climax of the riparian habitats in particular and the broadscale ecosystem in general.

Beyond riparian woodland on the floodplain are thickets of mesquite and catclaw and these give way to chaparral and an evergreen woodland of oaks and junipers on the slopes.

The interest of a riparian owner in keeping the level of a navigable stream low enough to maintain a power head for his use was not one for which he was entitled to be compensated when the Government raised the level by erecting a dam to improve navigation.

By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.

Although attempts have been made to cultivate the caocu, the medicinal value of the cultivated plant is markedly reduced as compared to the wild plant hunted in its riparian habitat of choice.

Along its further side the riparian plants grew thickly, so that it was separated from the river by a kind of hedge of purple loosestrife, great willow herb, fleabane, figwort and hemp agrimony, here and there already in bloom.

I can still see him in bright summer Hudson riparian light, on a lawn at river-side, somewhere north of Rhinecliff, a Livingston house behind us, all white columns and cinnamon stucco, and we spoke of the necessity, for some, of living on this side of the Atlantic, some distance from our newspapered democracy.

Tom looked up and down the Napa River as they crossed, estimating how far back from the water most of the west-bank town stood, and the width of wild dense riparian forest that stretched north like a lumpy green quilt on either side of the stream.

There are watergates, huge bridges, crumbling dockyards — every manner of riparian structure, to say nothing of derelict public buildings, gorgeous decayed dwellings, and great plazas and arcades all choked with dense jungle growth in places where the Nyssomu have forborne to interfere.