Sources and dynamics of large logs in a temperate floodplain river

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1127-1141

  Latterell, Joshua J ^a   Naiman, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Floodplain; Flow regime; Heterogeneity; Large woody debris; Queets river, Washington State (USA); Riparian ecosystem; Spiraling

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BANK EROSION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONNECTIVITY; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW PATTERN; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; WOODY DEBRIS;

NORTH AMERICA; QUEETS RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CONIFEROPHYTA;

ARTICLE; RIVER; TREE; UNITED STATES;

RIVERS; TREES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 34447134882     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0963     Document Type: Article

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