Use of airborne LiDAR and historical aerial photos for characterising the history of braided river floodplain morphology and vegetation responses

S Lallias-Tacon, F Liébault, H Piégay - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper combines synoptic airborne LiDAR data with historical aerial photos to
reconstruct floodplain formation and relate this with vegetation patch characteristics on three …

Riparian vegetation as an indicator of riparian condition: Detecting departures from historic condition across the North American West

WW Macfarlane, JT Gilbert, ML Jensen… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Floodplain riparian ecosystems support unique vegetation communities and high
biodiversity relative to terrestrial landscapes. Accordingly, estimating riparian ecosystem …

Modeling invasive alien plant species in river systems: Interaction with native ecosystem engineers and effects on hydro‐morphodynamic processes

M Van Oorschot, MG Kleinhans… - Water resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive alien plant species negatively impact native plant communities by out‐competing
species or changing abiotic and biotic conditions in their introduced range. River systems …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation succession processes and fluvial dynamics of a mobile temperate riparian ecosystem: the lower Allier River (France)

V Garófano-Gómez, M Metz, G Egger… - Géomorphologie …, 2017 - journals.openedition.org
Many riparian ecosystems in European temperate regions have lost their inherent, highly
dynamic character due to human-induced impacts such as river channelization and flow …

Causes of planform stability of a low-energy meandering gravel-bed river (Cher River, France)

T Depret, E Gautier, J Hooke, D Grancher, C Virmoux… - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
For at least two centuries, the lateral mobility of the meandering reaches of the Cher River
(France) has been very low. This article aims to identify the main causes of this behavior …

Benchmarking fluvial dynamics for process‐based river restoration: The Upper Rhine River (1816–2014)

M Diaz‐Redondo, G Egger… - River Research and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐temporal analysis of river‐floodplain processes is a key tool for the identification of
reference conditions or benchmarks and for the evaluation of deviations or deficits as a …

Exploring the key drivers of riparian woodland successional pathways across three European river reaches

R Muñoz‐Mas, V Garófano‐Gómez… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and river regulation are negatively impacting riparian vegetation. To
evaluate these impacts, process‐based models are preferred over data‐driven approaches …

A multi-scale approach of fluvial biogeomorphic dynamics using photogrammetry

B Hortobágyi, D Corenblit, F Vautier, J Steiger… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the last twenty years, significant technical advances turned photogrammetry into a
relevant tool for the integrated analysis of biogeomorphic cross-scale interactions within …

Floodplain capacity to depollute water in relation to the structure of biological communities

FA Comin, JM Sánchez-Pérez, C Español… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Floodplains are complex ecological systems that are mostly regulated by river dynamics and
human disturbances that determine the efficiency of the coupling of hydrogeochemical …

Combined effects of mud and riparian vegetation on river morphology

BML de Vries - 2017 - studenttheses.uu.nl
Cohesive sediment (mud) and riparian vegetation interact with river morphodynamics and
affect the formation of river patterns. Mud and vegetation are both associated with a shift …