Aquatic habitat dynamics along a braided alpine river ecosystem (Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy)

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 802-814

  Arscott, Dave B ^a,b   Tockner, Klement ^a   Van Der Nat, Dimitry ^a   Ward, J V ^a  

^a Swiss Fed Inst Environ Sci T   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiuvioscape; Flood pulse; Floodplain; Flow pulse; Fluvial dynamics; Hydrology; River geomorphology

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BRAIDED RIVER; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT;

ITALY; TAGLIAMENTO RIVER;

EID: 0036983439     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0192-7     Document Type: Article

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