Wood as a driver of past landscape change along river corridors

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1622-1626

  Francis, Robert A ^a   Petts, Geoff E ^b   Gurnell, Angela M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Holocene; Landscape change; Large wood; Riparian; River morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749122468     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1626     Document Type: Note

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