Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Transport and Transient In-channel Storage in a Highly Erodible Catchment

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1045-1063

  Buendia, Cristina ^a,b,c   Vericat, Damià ^b,d,e   Batalla, Ramon J ^b,c,d   Gibbins, Chris N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^d Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Forest Botany   (Spain)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badlands; Hysteresis; In channel storage; Mediterranean basin; River Is bena; Sediment load; Sediment transport; Southern Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLOCKS; DYNAMICS; HYSTERESIS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

BADLANDS; IN-CHANNELS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; PYRENEES; SEDIMENT LOADS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARAGON; HUESCA [ARAGON]; ISABENA RIVER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84924358683     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2348     Document Type: Article

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