Channel adjustments and vegetation cover dynamics in a large gravel bed river over the last 200years

Geomorphology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-159

  Comiti, F ^a   Da Canal, M ^b   Surian, N ^b   Mao, L ^b   Picco, L ^b   Lenzi, M A ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel narrowing; Human impact; Island dynamics; Italy; Piave River

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; ISLAND; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ITALY; PIAVE RIVER; VENETO;

EID: 78349308529     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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