Engineered channel controls limiting spawning habitat rehabilitation success on regulated gravel-bed rivers

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 631-654

  Brown, Rocko A ^a   Pasternack, Gregory B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow reregulation; Fluvial geomorphology; River restoration; Salmonid habitat; Two dimensional modeling

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FISH; FLOW REGULATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; RIVER ENGINEERING; SPAWNING; SUSTAINABILITY;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 42649137913     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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