Fire, floods and woody debris: Interactions between biotic and geomorphic processes

Geomorphology

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 297-304

  Bendix, Jacob ^a   Cowell, C Mark ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Riparian vegetation; Wildfire; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOODING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; WILDFIRE; WOODY DEBRIS;

CALIFORNIA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76549108762     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.043     Document Type: Article

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