The role of vegetation in mitigating the effects of landscape clearing upon dryland stream response trajectory and restoration potential

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 180-192

  Stromsoe, Nicola ^a   Callow, John Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; CHANNEL RESPONSE; DRYLAND; DRYLAND RIVERS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOW REGIMES; GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE; HISTORICAL RANGE OF VARIABILITY; HYDROCHEMICAL CHANGES; LAND CLEARING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; VEGETATION GROWTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; DEGRADATION; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

VEGETATION;

BASEFLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84856536124     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2240     Document Type: Article

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