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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8112
• Author: Osmundson, D. B. and B. K. Scheer.
• Title: Monitoring Cobble-Gravel Embeddedness in the Streambed of the Upper Colorado River, 1996-1997.
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Grand Junction, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES ........................................................ii
LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................... iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................... v
EXECUTIVE SUAEUARY ................................................. vi
INTRODUCTION .........................................................1
Background .......................................................3
METHODS ..............................................................4
RESULTS ...... ........................................................12
Flow Regimes . ...................................................12
Substrate Particle Size .............................................. 12
Embeddedness ....................................................14
Comparisons Between Habitats, Flow Stages, Years, and Reaches ...... 14
Comparisons Among Dates Within Runoff and Base Flow Periods ...... 17
Runoff ...............................................17
Base flow ............................................20
Relative Depth-to-Embeddedness ............................... 20
DISCUSSION ............................................................24
Summary ........................................................24
Embeddedness in Relation to Flows .................................... 25
Biological Implications ............................................. 26
General ...................................................26
Embeddedness and Substrate Particle Size Effects .................. 26
Streambed Disturbance Effects ................................. 26
CONCLUSIONS .........................................................28
RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................. 28
LITERATURE CITED ....................................................30
APPENDIX ............. ................................................33
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