Effects of river flow scaling properties on riparian width and vegetation biomass

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Muneepeerakul, R ^a   Rinaldo, A ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAINAGE; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

MULTIPLICATIVE MARKOVIAN DICHOTOMOUS NOISE; RIPARIAN WIDTH; RIVER FLOW SCALING;

STREAM FLOW;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAINAGE; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

BIOMASS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER FLOW; STREAM; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 38549125578     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006100     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Borgogno, F., P. D'Odorico, F. Laio, and L. Ridolfi (2007), Effect of rainfall interannual variability on the stability and resilience of dryland plant ecosystems, Water Resour. Res., 43, W06411, doi:10.1029/ 2006WR005314.
2. Camporeale, C., and L. Ridolfi (2006), Riparian vegetation distribution induced by river flow variability: A stochastic approach, Water Resour. Res., 42, W10415, doi:10.1029/2006WR004933.
3. D'Odorico, P., F. Laio, and L. Ridolfi (2005), Noise-induced stability in dryland plant ecosystems, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 102(31), 10,819-10,822, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502884102.
4. Dodov, B., and E. Foufoula-Georgiou (2005), Fluvial processes and stream-flow variability: Interplay in the scale-frequency continuum and implications for scaling, Water Resour. Res., 41, W05005, doi:10.1029/2004WR003408.
5. Gregory, S. V., F. J. Swanson, W. A. McKee, and K. W. Cummins (1991), An ecosystem perspective of riparian zones, Bioscience, 41(8), 540-551.
6. Gupta, V. K., and E. Waymire (1990), Multiscaling properties of spatial rainfall and river flow distributions, J. Geophys. Res., 95(D3), 1999-2009.
7. Horne, A. J., and C. R. Goldman (1994), Limnology, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
8. Horsthemke, W., and R. Lefever (1984), Noise-Induced Transitions: Theory and Applications in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Springer, New York.
9. Kundzewicz, Z. W., et al. (2007) Freshwater resources and their management, in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by M. L. Parry et al., pp. 173-210, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
10. Leopold, L. B., M. G. Wolman, and J. P. Miller (1964), Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology, W. H. Freeman, New York.
11. Lowrance, R., R. Todd, J. Fail, Jr., O. Hendrickson, Jr., R. Leonard, and L. Asmussen (1984), Riparian forests as nutrient filters in agricultural watersheds, Bioscience, 34(6), 374-377.
12. Malanson, G. P. (1993), Riparian Landscapes, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
13. McClain, M. E., et al. (2003), Biogeochemical hot spots and hot moments at the interface of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, Ecosystems, 6, 301-312.
14. Naiman, R. J., and H. Décamps (1997), The ecology of interfaces: Riparian zones, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 28, 621-658.
15. Nilsson, C., and M. Svedmark (2002), Basic principles and ecological consequences of changing water regimes: Riparian plant communities, Environ. Manage. N. Y., 30(4), 468-480.
16. Peterjohn, W. T., and D. L. Correll (1984), Nutrient dynamics in an agricultural watershed: Observations on the role of a riparian forest, Ecology, 65(5), 1466-1475.
17. Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., and A. Rinaldo (1997), Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
18. Smith, J. S. (1992), Representation of basin scales in flood peak distributions, Water Resour. Res., 28, 2993-2999.
19. Troutman, B. M., and T. M. Over (2001), River flow mass exponents with fractal channel networks and rainfall, Adv. Water Resour., 24, 967-989.