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Research on streams and stream networks in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, funded through the Long Term Ecological Research program (LTER), has shown that streams receive multiple types of inputs from adjacent forests but also that the streams in turn influence their terrestrial environments.
An illustration of the River Continuum Concept
