Longitudinal river ecohydrology: Flow variation down the lengths of alluvial rivers

Ecohydrology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 532-548

  Larned, Scott T ^a   Schmidt, Jochen ^a   Datry, Thibault ^b   Konrad, Christopher P ^c   Dumas, Jennifer K ^a   Diettrich, Jan C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial river; Empirical model; Flow variability; Hydrological index; Intermittence; Longitudinal variation

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL RIVER; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FLOW VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL INDEX; INTERMITTENCE; LONGITUDINAL VARIATION;

ECOLOGY; GAGES; HYDROLOGY; LITHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ECOHYDROLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIN; ALBARINE RIVER; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; FRANCE; METHOW RIVER; NEW ZEALAND; RHONE-ALPES; SELWYN RIVER; SOUTH ISLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79960535115     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.126     Document Type: Article

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