Riparian area

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024338",
  "term": "Riparian area",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Riparian Area",
  "definitions": [
    "1. Vegetated ecosystems along a waterbody through which energy, materials, and water pass. Riparian areas characteristically have a high water table and are subject to periodic flooding and influence from the adjacent waterbody. These systems encompass wetlands, uplands, or some combination of the two, although they will not in all cases have all the characteristics necessary for them to be classified as wetlands.\n\n2. Lands adjacent to streams, rivers, lakes, and estuarine-marine shorelines. Riparian areas provide a variety of ecological functions and services and help improve or maintain local water quality.\n\n3. Area of land next to a body of water. Riparian areas form the transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments.\n\n4. Lands adjacent to streams, lakes, and estuarine-marine shorelines. Riparian areas are transitional between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, through which surface and subsurface hydrology connects water bodies with their adjacent uplands. Riparian areas provide a variety of ecological functions and services and help improve or maintain local water quality.",
    "1. Areas bordering streams, lakes, rivers, and other watercourses. These areas have high water tables and support plants that require saturated soils during all or part of the year. Riparian areas include both wetland and upland zones.\n\n2. Vegetated ecosystems along a water body through which energy, materials, and water pass. Riparian areas characteristically have a high water table and are subject to periodic flooding and influence from the adjacent water body."
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Natural environments",
    "Water"
  ],
  "references": [
    "EPA Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/chesbay502/pdf/chesbay_glossary.pdf; Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary",
    "40 CFR 230.92 (CFR 2013)",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary; NSTEPS Online Glossary of Terms",
    "Aquatic Resources Glossary",
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary; Urban Watershed Management Research Terminology",
    "Nonpoint Pollution Source from Agriculture Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/riparian-area/"
}