Check dams have been used throughout the world for a variety of purposes including torrent
control, water supply enhancement, agricultural land development, and watershed …

In mountain streams possible negative impacts of check dams on soil, water and riparian
vegetation due to check dam installation can be noticed. In spite of the ample literature on …

Check dams are frequently built in mountain streams as sequences of stair-like grade-
control structures to stabilise longitudinal profiles and decrease bedload transport rates …

Hydrologic connectivity refers to the processes and thresholds leading to water transport
across a landscape. In dryland ecosystems, runoff production is mediated by the …

Grade control structures (GCSs) are one of the most often used hydraulic structures in a river
regulation in mountain catchments. The purpose of their use is to reduce the river bed …

Flash floods resulting from extreme rainstorms seriously threaten regional socioeconomic
development. However, few studies have explored the general impacts of soil and water …

Sediment flux in rivers has dropped globally in the past decades due to the increasing
anthropogenic stressors, leading to significant riverbed degradation that may endanger the …

Three pairs of small, fourth-to sixth-order catchments (approximately 5–80 km 2), draining
the margin of the Darjeeling Himalayas into the piedmont, were selected for a comparison of …

The study investigated the effect of torrent control structures on the sediment cascade in the
Vegliato mountain basin (Italy) related to an intense rainfall event of 50 years return interval …

Check dams can modify local channel and sedimentological characteristics through
sediment deposition in upstream sedimentary wedges and scour processes downstream of …