Dynamic disturbance regime approach in river restoration: Concept development and application

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 323-337

  Formann, Erik ^a   Egger, Gregory ^c   Hauer, Christoph ^b   Habersack, Helmut ^b  

^a State Government of Lower Austria   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c Office of Environment   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; Plant succession; Regime theory; River morphology; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904563653     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-013-0228-5     Document Type: Article

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