Islands in a European mountain river: Linkages with large wood deposition, flood flows and plant diversity

Geomorphology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-127

  Mikuś, Paweł ^a   Wyzga, Bartłomiej ^a   Kaczka, Ryszard J ^b   Walusiak, Edward ^a   Zawiejska, Joanna ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Flood disturbance; Large wood; Mountain river; Plant diversity; Vegetated island

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOOD; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT; REGENERATION; RIVER ENGINEERING; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CARPATHIANS;

EID: 84886587514     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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