Contemporary changes in sediment yield in an alpine mountain basin due to afforestation (the upper Drôme in France)

Catena

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-212

  Piégay, Hervé ^a   Walling, Desmond E ^b   Landon, Norbert ^a   He, Qinping ^b   Liébault, Fred ^a   Petiot, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel and floodplain geometry; Dendrogeomorphology; Fallout Cs137; Fallout Pb210; Mountain river; Overbank sedimentation; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HILLSLOPE; LAND USE CHANGE; SEDIMENT YIELD;

DROME; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHONE-ALPES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1142277931     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(03)00118-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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