Assessing riparian zone impacts on water and sediment movement: A new approach

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 245-255

  Keesstra, S D ^a   Kondrlova, E ^b   Czajka, A ^c   Seeger, M ^a,d   Maroulis, J ^a,e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN NITRA   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Channel management; Modelling flood retention; Riparian vegetation; Water and sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DISCHARGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION;

POLAND;

EID: 84867563487     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016774600001633     Document Type: Article

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