Reduced bed material stability and increased bedload transport caused by foraging fish: A flume study with juvenile Barbel (Barbus barbus)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1500-1513

  Pledger, Andrew G ^a   Rice, Stephen P ^a   Millett, Jon ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barbel; Bedload transport; Ecosystem engineering; Imbrication; Zoogeomorphology

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; FISH; GRAVEL; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

BARBEL; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; IMBRICATION; ZOOGEOMORPHOLOGY;

SUBSTRATES;

BEDLOAD; BENTHOS; ENTRAINMENT; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; IMBRICATION; JUVENILE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; BARBUS; BARBUS BARBUS;

EID: 84906557225     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3592     Document Type: Article

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