Initial adjustments within a new river channel: Interactions between fluvial processes, colonizing vegetation, and bank profile development

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 580-596

  Gurnell, Angela M ^a   Morrissey, Ian P ^b   Boitsidis, Angela J ^a,e   Bark, Tony ^a   Clifford, Nicholas J ^c   Petts, Geoffrey E ^b   Thompson, Kenneth ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e Jacobs Babtie   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank profile; Bed profile; Hydrochory; River channel change; River restoration; Sediment dynamics

Indexed keywords

BANK PROFILE; BED PROFILE; HYDROCHORY; RIVER CHANNEL CHANGE; RIVER RESTORATION; SEDIMENT DYNAMICS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

SURFACE WATER RESOURCES;

FLUVIAL PROCESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER BANK; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENERGY; GROWTH; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION; WINTER;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; RIVERS; SEEDS; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

COLE RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST MIDLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749017624     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0190-6     Document Type: Article

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