'Natural' rivers, 'hydromorphological quality' and river restoration: A challenging new agenda for applied fluvial geomorphology

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1606-1624

  Newson, Malcolm D ^a   Large, Andrew R G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Hydromorphology'; Biodiversity; Fluvial geomorphology; River management; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY;

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE;

RIVERS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RIVERS;

BIODIVERSITY; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750846131     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1430     Document Type: Article

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