Spatial variability in floodplain sedimentation: The use of generalized linear mixed-effects models

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1655-1668

  Cabezas, A ^a,b   Angulo Martinez M ^c   Gonzalez Sanchis M ^a   Jimenez, J J ^a   Comin F A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITION PATTERNS; EBRO RIVER; FLOODPLAIN MORPHOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTATION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODELS; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; REGULAR GRIDS; SAMPLING UNITS; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SELF-CORRELATION; SITE EFFECTS; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION PATTERN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODPLAIN; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBANK FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVER BANK; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EBRO RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 77956204815     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-1655-2010     Document Type: Article

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