Long-term cottonwood forest dynamics along the upper missouri river, USA

River Research and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1016-1029

  Scott, M L ^a   Auble, G T ^a   Dixon, M D ^b   Carter Johnson, W ^c   Rabbe, L A ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel narrowing; Cottonwood; Dams; Forest dynamics; GIS; Missouri River; State and transition models; Vegetation cover types

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COTTON; DAM; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

FORT PECK RESERVOIR; MISSOURI RIVER; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS;

EID: 84885836714     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.2588     Document Type: Article

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