Plants as river system engineers

A Gurnell - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants growing within river corridors both affect and respond to fluvial processes. Their
above‐ground biomass modifies the flow field and retains sediment, whereas their below …

Adaptation to natural flow regimes

DA Lytle, NLR Poff - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2004 - cell.com
Floods and droughts are important features of most running water ecosystems, but the
alteration of natural flow regimes by recent human activities, such as dam building, raises …

Changing river channels: The roles of hydrological processes, plants and pioneer fluvial landforms in humid temperate, mixed load, gravel bed rivers

AM Gurnell, W Bertoldi, D Corenblit - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The fluvial riparian and aquatic patch mosaic varies along rivers according to
geomorphological setting, hydrological regime, sediment supply and surface–groundwater …

Tolerance to shade, drought, and waterlogging of temperate northern hemisphere trees and shrubs

Ü Niinemets, F Valladares - Ecological monographs, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Lack of information on ecological characteristics of species across different continents
hinders development of general world‐scale quantitative vegetation dynamic models. We …

The role of hydrochory in structuring riparian and wetland vegetation

C Nilsson, RL Brown, R Jansson… - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrochory, or the passive dispersal of organisms by water, is an important means of
propagule transport, especially for plants. During recent years, knowledge about hydrochory …

Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: a review of foundation concepts and current understandings

D Corenblit, ACW Baas, G Bornette, J Darrozes… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
This review article presents recent advances in the field of biogeomorphology related to the
reciprocal coupling between Earth surface processes and landforms, and ecological and …

Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds

DM Merritt, ML Scott, N LeRoy Poff, GT Auble… - Freshwater …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Riparian vegetation composition, structure and abundance are governed to a large degree
by river flow regime and flow‐mediated fluvial processes. Streamflow regime exerts …

[HTML][HTML] Improving river hydromorphological assessment through better integration of riparian vegetation: Scientific evidence and guidelines

MG Del Tánago, V Martínez-Fernández… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
River hydromorphology has long been subjected to huge anthropogenic pressures with
severe negative impacts on related ecosystems' functioning and water quality. Therefore …

Modeling the interactions between river morphodynamics and riparian vegetation

C Camporeale, E Perucca, L Ridolfi… - Reviews of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The study of river‐riparian vegetation interactions is an important and intriguing research
field in geophysics. Vegetation is an active element of the ecological dynamics of a …

Tracing the scientific trajectory of riparian vegetation studies: Main topics, approaches and needs in a globally changing world

S Dufour, PM Rodríguez-González, M Laslier - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Riparian vegetation is a crucial component of fluvial systems and serves multiple socio-
ecological functions. The objective of this review is to follow the scientific trajectory of studies …