Quantifying variability in stream channel morphology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Trainor, Kristie ^a   Church, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity; Disturbance; Morphology; Stream; Variability

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DEBRIS; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DEPTH VARIABILITY; STREAM CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY;

STREAM FLOW;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RIVER CHANNEL; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 1542757278     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR001971     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Andrus, C. W., B. A. Long, and H. A. Froehlich, Woody debris and its contribution to pool formation in a coastal stream 50 years after logging, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 45, 2080-2086, 1988.
2. Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (ASPECT), Editorial, ASPECT-The DEGIFS Newsletter, 5(2), 2-3, 2000.
3. Bisson, P. A., J. L. Nielson, R. A. Palmason, and L. E. Grove, A system of naming habitat types in small streams, with examples of habitat utilization by salmonids during low streamflow, in Acquisition and Utilization of Aquatic Habitat Inventory Information, edited by N. B. Armantrout, pp. 62-73, West. Div., Am. Fish. Soc., Portland, Oreg., 1982.
4. Cheong, A., Quantifying drainage basin comparisons within a knowledge-based system framework, Master's thesis, Dep. of Geogr., Univ. of B. C., Vancouver, B. C., Canada, 1992.
5. Church, M., Channel morphology and typology, in The Rivers Handbook, edited by P. Calow and G. E. Petts, pp. 126-143, Blackwell Sci., Malden, Mass., 1992.
6. Church, M., M. A. Hassan, and J. F. Wolcott, Stabilizing self-organized structures in gravel-bed stream channels: Field and experimental observations, Water Resour. Res., 34(11), 3169-3179, 1998.
7. Gordon, A. D., Classification: Methods for the Exploratory Analysis of Multivariate Data, 193 pp., Chapman and Hall, New York, 1981.
8. Grant, G. E., F. J. Swanson, and M. G. Wolman, Pattern and origin of stepped-bed morphology in high-gradient streams, Western Cascades, Oregon, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 102, 340-352, 1990.
9. Hawkins, C. P., et al., A hierarchical approach to classifying stream habitat features, Fisheries, 18(6), 3-12, 1993.
10. Hogan, D. L., Channel morphology of unlogged, logged, and debris torrented streams in the Queen Charlotte Islands, Land Manage. Rep. 49, 94 pp., B. C. Min. of For. and Lands, Victoria, Canada, 1986.
11. Hogan, D. L., Channel response to mass wasting in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia: Temporal and spatial changes in stream morphology, in Proceedings of Watersheds '89: A Conference on the Stewardship of Soil, Air and Water Resources, Juneau, Alaska, March 21-23, 1989, Rep. R10-MB-77, pp. 125-144, USDA For. Serv., Alaska Reg., Juneau, Alaska, 1989.
12. Hogan, D. L., and S. A. Bird, Classification and assessment of small coastal stream channels, in Carnation Creek and Queen Charlotte Islands Fish/Forestry Workshop: Applying 20 Years of Coastal Research to Management Solutions, Land Manage. Handb. 41, edited by D. L. Hogan, P. J. Tschaplinski, and S. Chatwin, pp. 189-200, B. C. Min. of For., Research Program, Victoria, Canada, 1998.
13. Keller, E. A., and W. N. Melhorn, Rhythmic spacing and origin of pools and riffles, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 89, 723-730, 1978.
14. Keller, E. A., and T. Tally, Effects of large organic debris on channel form and fluvial processes in the coastal redwood environment, in Adjustments of the Fluvial System, edited by D. D. Rhodes and G. P. Williams, pp. 169-197, Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1979.
15. Leopold, L. B., M. G. Wolman, and J. P. Miller, Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology, 522 pp., W. H. Freeman, New York, 1964.
16. Montgomery, D. R., and J. M. Buffington, Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 109(5), 596-611, 1997.
17. Montgomery, D. R., J. M. Buffington, R. D. Smith, K. M. Schmidt, and G. Pess, Pool spacing in forest channels, Water Resour. Res., 31(4), 1097-1105, 1995.
18. Ralph, S. C., G. C. Poole, L. L. Conquest, and R. J. Naiman, Stream channel morphology and woody debris in logged and unlogged basins of western Washington, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 5, 37-51, 1994.
19. Rice, S., Towards a model of changes in bed material texture at the drainage basin scale, in Process Models and Theoretical Geomorphology, edited by M. J. Kirkby, pp. 159-172, John Wiley, Hoboken, N. J., 1994.
20. Schumm, S. A., The Fluvial System, 338 pp., John Wiley, Hoboken, N. J., 1977.
21. Sullivan, K., Hydraulics and fish habitat in relation to channel morphology, Ph.D. thesis, 407 pp., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md., 1986.
22. Sutherland Brown, A., Geology of the Queen Charlotte Islands, Bull. 54, 226 pp., B. C. Dep. of Mines and Pet. Resour., Victoria, Canada, 1968.
23. Wood-Smith, R. D., and J. M. Buffington, Multivariate geomorphic analysis of forest streams: Implications for assessment of land use impacts on channel condition, Earth Surf. Processes Landforms, 21, 377-393, 1996.