Valley floor landscape change following almost 100 years of flood embankment abandonment on a wandering gravel-bed river

River Research and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 461-479

  Parsons, Helena ^a   Gilvear, David ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel change; Embankments; Floodplain vegetation; Fluvial landforms; Gravel bed rivers; Impounded rivers; Landscape patches

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; EMBANKMENT; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GRAVEL BED STREAM; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036740163     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.684     Document Type: Article

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