Dynamics of wood in stream networks of the western Cascades Range, Oregon

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2236-2248

  Czarnomski, Nicole M ^a   Dreher, David M ^a   Snyder, Kai U ^a   Jones, Julia A ^a   Swanson, Frederick J ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DEBRIS; DYNAMICS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; LANDFORMS; MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; ROADS AND STREETS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DEBRIS FLOWS; FLUVIAL TRANSPORT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; FOREST PRACTICES; FOREST SUCCESSION; FORESTED WATERSHEDS; GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES; HEADWATER STREAMS; MASS BALANCING; NATURAL PROCESSES; NETWORK DYNAMICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES; ON TIME; SPATIAL PATTERNING; STREAM NETWORKS; STREAM SEGMENTS; TRANSPORT PROCESSES; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLANS; WOOD DYNAMICS;

WOOD;

DEBRIS FLOW; FLOOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; MODELING; STREAM; SUCCESSION; WATERSHED; WOOD;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DYNAMICS; FIBER DEBRIS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; RIVERS; SOIL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49249134731     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-068     Document Type: Article

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