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flow) nursery area forjuvenile fish <br /> • Rise and fall rates • Provide new feeding <br /> opportunities for fish, <br /> Szrbtotal 6~ara~ieters~ waterfowl <br /> • Recharge floodplain water <br /> table <br /> • Maintain diversity in <br /> floodplain forest types <br /> through prolonged <br /> inundation (i.e. different <br /> plant species have different <br /> tolerances) <br /> • Control distribution and <br /> abundance of plants <br /> on floodplain <br /> • Deposit nutrients on <br /> floodplain <br />5. Large floods Frequency of large floods during Applies to small and large <br /> each water year or season floods: <br /> Mean or median values of large • Maintain balance of species <br /> flood event: in aquatic and <br /> • Duration (days) riparian conul7unities <br /> • Peak flow (maximum flow • Create sites for recruitment <br /> during event) of colonizing <br /> • Timing (Julian date of peak plants <br /> flow) • Shape physical habitats of <br /> • Rise and fall rates floodplain <br /> • Deposit gravel and cobbles <br /> Sz~btotal 6 pa~•an~eters in spawning areas <br /> • Flush organic materials <br /> (food) and woody <br /> debris (habitat stn~ctures) <br /> into channel <br /> • Purge invasive, introduced <br /> species from <br /> aquatic and riparian <br /> comnnuuties <br /> • Disburse seeds and fn~its of <br /> riparian plants <br /> • Drive lateral movement of <br /> river channel, <br /> forming new habitats <br /> (secondary channels, <br /> oxbow lakes) <br /> • Provide lant seedlings with <br />56 <br />