Scaling relations between riparian vegetation and stream order in the Whitewater River network, Kansas, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 983-997

  Dunn, William C ^a   Milne, Bruce T ^a   Mantilla, Ricardo ^b   Gupta, Vijay K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Basins; Horton laws; Horton Strahler; Network; Order; Riparian; Scaling; Self similarity; Streams

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER SYSTEM; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STREAMFLOW; TOPOLOGY; WATER BUDGET;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES; WHITEWATER BASIN;

EID: 79960158692     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9622-2     Document Type: Article

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