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“The areas adjacent to streams, lakes, and wetlands that influence and are influenced by the adjoining waterway. Riparian areas are important because of the influence they have on aquatic ecosystems – providing shade, stabilizing banks, contributing large and small debris, regulating runoff and sedimentation – and because they provide rich and important habitat for a variety of creatures.”
 * Riparian Areas**

//SOURCE//: (2008). //Sustainability: Glossary - Riparian Areas// [online]. Vancouver 2010. Available from: http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/Sustainability/Glossary [Re-accessed: 07 March 2008].