Effects of Riparian Vegetation on Stream Channel Stability and Sediment Budgets

Riparian Vegetation and Fluvial Geomorphology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 153-169

  Trimble, Stanley W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Riparian plants; River channels; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940230596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/008WSA12     Document Type: Chapter

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