Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

T Heckmann, M Cavalli, O Cerdan, S Foerster… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Indices of connectivity are critical means for moving from qualitative to (semi-) quantitative
evaluations of material (eg, water, sediment and nutrients) transfer across the building …

Plants as river system engineers

A Gurnell - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants growing within river corridors both affect and respond to fluvial processes. Their
above‐ground biomass modifies the flow field and retains sediment, whereas their below …

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

E Wohl, G Brierley, D Cadol… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Connectivity describes the efficiency of material transfer between geomorphic system
components such as hillslopes and rivers or longitudinal segments within a river network …

Check dams worldwide: Objectives, functions, effectiveness and undesired effects

ME Lucas-Borja, G Piton, Y Yu, C Castillo, DA Zema - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Check dams have been used throughout the world for a variety of purposes including torrent
control, water supply enhancement, agricultural land development, and watershed …

[PDF][PDF] Road ecology

RTT Forman, D Sperling, JA Bissonette… - Science and …, 2003 - arc-solutions.org
Humans have spread an enormous net over the land. As the largest human artifact on earth,
this vast, nearly five million mile (8 million km) road network used by a quarter billion …

Changing river channels: The roles of hydrological processes, plants and pioneer fluvial landforms in humid temperate, mixed load, gravel bed rivers

AM Gurnell, W Bertoldi, D Corenblit - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The fluvial riparian and aquatic patch mosaic varies along rivers according to
geomorphological setting, hydrological regime, sediment supply and surface–groundwater …

Impacts of impervious surface on watershed hydrology: A review

WD Shuster, J Bonta, H Thurston… - Urban Water …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Increased impervious surface area is a consequence of urbanization, with correspondent
and significant effects on the hydrologic cycle. It is intuitive that an increased proportion of …

The network dynamics hypothesis: how channel networks structure riverine habitats

LEE Benda, NL Poff, D Miller, T Dunne, G Reeves… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Hierarchical and branching river networks interact with dynamic watershed
disturbances, such as fires, storms, and floods, to impose a spatial and temporal …

Understanding processes and downstream linkages of headwater systems: headwaters differ from downstream reaches by their close coupling to hillslope processes …

T Gomi, RC Sidle, JS Richardson - BioScience, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The flow of sediment and woody debris from episodic landslides has a direct effect on
headwater channels in mountainous regions (Dietrich and Dunne 1978, Benda and Cundy …

Reciprocal interactions and adjustments between fluvial landforms and vegetation dynamics in river corridors: a review of complementary approaches

D Corenblit, E Tabacchi, J Steiger, AM Gurnell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Until recently, one-way relationships between flow dynamics, geomorphology and plant
ecology were considered dominantly when studying the functioning of river systems …