26 Gravel bars: a key habitat of gravel-bed rivers for vegetation

Developments in Earth Surface Processes

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 677-700

  Gilvear, David ^a   Francis, Robert ^a   Willby, Nigel ^a   Gurnell, Angela ^a  

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EID: 48349144606     PISSN: 09282025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-2025(07)11154-8     Document Type: Review

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