Salmon-driven bed load transport and bed morphology in mountain streams

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Hassan, Marwan A ^a   Gottesfeld, Allen S ^b   Montgomery, David R ^c   Tunnicliffe, Jon F ^d   Clarke, Garry K C ^a   Wynn, Graeme ^a   Jones Cox, Hale ^a   Poirier, Ronald ^a   MacIsaac, Erland ^e   Herunter, Herb ^e   Macdonald, Steve J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Skeena Fisheries Commission   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ALLUVIAL; BED LOAD TRANSPORT; SALMON;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

BEDLOAD; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DRAINAGE BASIN; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WINTER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44249089096     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032997     Document Type: Article

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