Responses to river management? Geomorphic change over decadal and annual timescales in two gravel-bed rivers in New Zealand

River Channels: Types, Dynamics and Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 137-164

  Fuller, Ian C ^a   Richardson, Jane M ^a   Basher, Les ^b   Dykes, Rob C ^a   Vale, Simon S ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

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