Resetting the river template: The potential for climate-related extreme floods to transform river geomorphology and ecology

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2477-2496

  Death, Russell G ^a   Fuller, Ian C ^a   Macklin, Mark G ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme climate events; Floods; Geomorphology; Habitat template; River engineering; River systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946474090     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12639     Document Type: Article

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