Effects of channel confinement on pioneer woody vegetation structure, composition and diversity along the River Drôme (SE France)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1244-1256

  Dufour, S ^a   Barsoum, Nadia ^b   Muller, E ^c   Piegay H ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Université de Toulouse   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Braided river; Channel geometry; Embankment; Populus; Riparian pioneer vegetation; Salix; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RIVER DIVERSION; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION; WOOD;

CHANNEL CONFINEMENT; PIONEER VEGETATION; RIVER CHANNEL STABILIZATION;

LEVEES;

BIODIVERSITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEVEES; RIVER DIVERSION; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION; WOOD;

BRAIDED RIVER; CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ELEVATION; EMBANKMENT; GEOMETRY; GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS; POPULUS; RIVERS; SALIX; SEDIMENTATION;

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

POPULUS; POPULUS NIGRA; SALIX;

EID: 34547166928     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1556     Document Type: Article

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