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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

MG Turner - 2001 - lepicolea.wordpress.com
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

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 …

Prefire heterogeneity, fire severity, and early postfire plant reestablishment in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

MG Turner, WH Romme… - International Journal of …, 1999 - CSIRO Publishing
The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park providedan opportunity to study effects of a
large infrequent disturbance on a natural community. This study addressed two …

[HTML][HTML] Threats, biodiversity drivers and restoration in temperate floodplain forests related to spatial scales

A Havrdová, J Douda, J Doudová - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Floodplain forests offer a diversity of habitats and resources for a very wide range of plant
and animal species. They also offer many benefits to humankind and are considered …

Edge effects of linear canopy openings on tropical rain forest understory microclimate

CL Pohlman, SM Turton, M Goosem - Biotropica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated microclimatic edge gradients associated with grassy powerlines, paved
highways and perennial creeks in wet tropical forest in northeastern Australia during wet …

Landscape configuration and flood frequency influence invasive shrubs in floodplain forests of the Wisconsin River (USA)

KI Predick, MG Turner - Journal of Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Invasive species are present worldwide, yet predicting which invasive species
will become problematic in which ecosystems remains an important ecological challenge …

Why are forests so scarce in subtropical South America? The shaping roles of climate, fire and livestock

RE Bernardi, M Holmgren, M Arim… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Forest cover is notoriously sparse across neotropical southeastern South America. In
particular, the practically treeless landscapes of the Campos, as they are locally known …

[PDF][PDF] Multiscale computation of solar radiation for predictive vegetation modelling

C Piedallu, JC Gégout - Annals of forest science, 2007 - afs-journal.org
The recent development of large environmental databases allow the analysis of the
ecological behaviour of species or communities over large territories. Solar radiation is a …