ECOSYSTEM

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Ecosystem An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system. Quote: “This isn’t rocket science…, this ecosystem is more complicated than that”.

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Updates General Wildlife Approximately 355 Bird, 89 mammal, 47 reptile, 9 amphibian, and thousands of aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate species can be found in GCNP and GCNRA's Glen Canyon reach. (NPS CFMP-EA_pg 19) General Plant Species Approximately 129 vegetation communities, Over 850 species have been reported from GCNRA, and over 1,750 vascular plant species from GCNP (NPS CFMP-EA_pg 19) Riparian communities are dominated by species such as coyote and seep willows, arrowweed, western honey mesquite, catclaw acacia, and exotic tamarisk with many other species present. Desert Scrub communities are dominated by species such as creosote, white bursage, brittle bush, ocotillo, four-wing saltbush, big sagebrush, ephedra, dropseed, brome grasses, and many other species. Approximately 11% of flora in GCNP and GC reach is exotic.

Reports and Links 2016 Linkages between controlled floods, eddy sandbar dynamics, and riparian vegetation along the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, Arizona, USA Riparian vegetation monitoring with remote sensing Southern Paiute Consortium Vegetation and Cultural Resource Monitoring Program Historical Changes to Culturally-Important Riparian Plants along the Colorado River: A Progress Report on Project 12 Report of Riparian Vegetation Workshop, June 23-25, 2015 in Flagstaff, AZ The Biogeographic Significance of a Large, Deep Canyon: Grand Canyon, Southwestern USA Ecosystem Monitoring in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area 2015 The Stakeholder's Perspective - The National Parks Conservation Association Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Update Collaborative Riparian Restoration in Glen Canyon NRA at Leopard Frog Marsh USGS State of the Colorado River Ecosystem in the Grand Canyon- c1282 2012 According to the Basin Study (2012)] results suggested that ecological and recreational metrics were amongst the most vulnerable to future conditions...[Source: 2.4;Figure 2.3]*LINK Other Stuff