Downstream effects of dams on channel geometry and bottomland vegetation: Regional patterns in the Great Plains

Wetlands

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 619-633

  Friedman, Jonathan M ^a   Osterkamp, W R ^a   Scott, Michael L ^a   Auble, Gregor T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel geometry; Cottonwood; Dam; Forest; Great Plains; Riparian; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DAM; FLOW PATTERN; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; POPULUS; RIPARIA;

EID: 0032461826     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161677     Document Type: Article

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