Abstract
Eight major tributaries within the Missouri River basin are described representing the range of diverse physical, hydraulic, and floral-faunal characteristics of the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Central Lowland, and Ozark Plateaus physiographic provinces. Rocky mountain origin tributaries include the Madison River and Milk River. The former is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River and a blue-ribbon trout fishery; the latter characterizes a turbid prairie river of the dry-steppe northern Great Plains. Tributaries originating in the Great Plains include the high dissolved ion and rich sediment load Cheyenne River, groundwater dominated, clear-water Niobrara River, and the Central Lowland Big Sioux River. Lower basin tributaries include the sand-bed Kansas River, flashy hydrology Grand River, and species-rich Ozark Highlands Osage River. Physiography and climate, basin landscape and land use, river geomorphology, hydrology, chemistry, biodiversity, ecosystem processes, human impacts, and research needs are described for each river.
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