Freshwater Ecology

Many #freshwater river courses around the world are protected by #RiparianBuffers but what role do they serve for #biodiversity? This #Nature paper explores the role these important #habitats play 🌍🌐

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#FreshwaterHabitat #AquaticEcology #Ecosystems #GlobalEcology

Planning commission backs stronger riparian buffer protections, asks staff for clearer guidance and outreach The commission voted to recommend zoning text amendments that move riparian buffer protections from the Water Protection Ordinance into the zoning code countywide, keeping 100‑foot buffers on perennial streams and adding clearer mitigation procedures and special‑exception standards; staff will refine survey standards, planting ratios and implementation guidance before the Board hearing.

Albemarle County is set to strengthen its riparian buffer protections, ensuring 100-foot buffers on perennial streams and clearer guidelines for landowners to safeguard our water resources!

Learn more here

#AlbemarleCounty #VA #EnvironmentalSustainability #RiparianBuffers #CitizenPortal

Riparian buffers are a natural way to reduce, pollution entering our waterways. These stream side buffers reduce erosion, filter pollutants, provide habitat, promote ecological diversity, absorb flood waters and so much more.

https://buff.ly/4hjR6c4

#RiparianBuffers #watersquality

#RiparianBuffers are essential "commons," tho we can create them with #ConservationEasements. Communities are essential. Some regenerative farming is feasable, but forwilded, they also provide ecological corridors and refugia to counter fragmentation and climate "damming" north/south.

Allison Roy @USGS: #riparianbuffers need to be paired w #greeninfrastructure to get #stormwater into ground & not bypassing buffers

@EnviroClinicVLS: where r cases on "taking" public goods & imposing costs on others? #riparianbuffers #pollution #flooding #externalities