Large in-stream wood studies: A call for common metrics

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 618-625

  Wohl, Ellen ^a   Cenderelli, Daniel A ^b   Dwire, Kathleen A ^c   Ryan Burkett, Sandra E ^c   Young, Michael K ^d   Fausch, Kurt D ^a  

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

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d USDA Forest Service Forestry Science Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Common metrics; Field measurements; In stream wood

Indexed keywords

COMMON METRICS; ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FIELD EXPERIENCE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; METHODS OF MEASUREMENT; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RIPARIAN ZONES; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS;

WOOD;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; HOLISTIC APPROACH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RIPARIAN ZONE; WATERSHED;

DIMENSIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTS; HYDRAULICS; LAND; NORTH AMERICA; RETENTION; WOOD;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 77951076584     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1966     Document Type: Article

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