The role of vegetation in the formation of anabranching channels in an ephemeral river, Northern plains, arid central Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 14, Issue 16-17, 2000, Pages 3099-3117

  Tooth, Stephen ^a,c   Nanson, Gerald C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial islands; Anabranching; Channel train Ridges; Drylands; Ephemeral river; Riparian vegetation; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COLONIZATION; EPHEMERAL STREAM; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENTATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EROSION; HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

ANABRANCHING CHANNELS; EPHEMERAL RIVER;

RIVERS;

EID: 0034351941     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1085(200011/12)14:16/17<3099::AID-HYP136>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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