Wood distribution in neotropical forested headwater streams of La Selva, Costa Rica

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1198-1215

  Cadol, Daniel ^a   Wohl, Ellen ^a   Goode, Jaime R ^a   Jaeger, Kristin L ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial geomorphology; In stream wood; Tropical streams; Vegetation channel interaction

Indexed keywords

COSTA RICA; DRAINAGE AREA; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEADWATER STREAM; IN-STREAM WOOD; NEOTROPICAL STREAM; RECRUITMENT PROCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODELS; STREAM POWER; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPICAL STREAMS; WOOD LOAD;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LANTHANUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

WOOD;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOODING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; HEADWATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; TEMPERATE FOREST; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VEGETATION; WOOD;

ANATOMY; COSTA RICA; GEOLOGY; LANTHANUM; RIVERS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; WOOD;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

EID: 68949118581     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1800     Document Type: Article

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