Fluvial process and the establishment of bottomland trees
Flood ; Hydraulic works ; Meander ; Missouri ; Montana ; Spatial variation ; Stream ; Tree ; United States of America ; Vegetation
The effects of river regulation on bottomland tree communities in western North America have generated substantial concern because of the important habitat and aesthetic values of these communities. Consideration of such effects in water management
decisions has been hampered by the apparent varaibility of responses of bottomland tree communities to flow alteration. When the relation between streamflow and tree establishment is placed in a geomorphic context, however, much of that variability
is explained, and prediction of changes in tree community is improved.
immediately preceding and during peak stage. Many of these logs are sequestered in bankside vegetation where they form abrasion wounds on trees by rubbing up and down in the turbulent waters.
Aerial photography ; Channel geometry ; Colorado ; Dendrology ; Flood ; River bed ; Sediment transport ; Stream ; Tree ; United States of America ; Vegetation