Influence of riparian vegetation on channel widening and subsequent contraction on a sand-bed stream since European settlement: Widden Brook, Australia

Geomorphology

Volumn 147-148, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-114

  Erskine, Wayne ^a   Keene, Annabelle ^b   Bush, Richard ^b   Cheetham, Michael ^b   Chalmers, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bank accretion; Bench formation; Chute abandonment; Floodplain formation; Point bar formation; Riparian vegetation

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHANNEL CHANGE; DEPOSITION; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK FLOW; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEDIMENTATION;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; WIDDEN BROOK;

CASUARINA CUNNINGHAMIANA; CYNODON DACTYLON; PASPALUM DISTICHUM; PENNISETUM CLANDESTINUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POACEAE;

EID: 84857639436     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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