Rivers in the landscape : science and management / Ellen Wohl, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Rivers in the Landscape will summarize the state of knowledge concerning physical processes and forms in rivers. The organization and content of the book emphasize that rivers exist as part of a greater landscape. For example, the text explicitly discusses: connectivity between the river channel, the atmosphere, the adjacent uplands and floodplain, and subsurface environments; the interactions between tectonics and river networks; and the influences of climate, biota, and human activities on river process and form. The text concisely summarizes the basic characteristics of natural rivers, fro.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Connectivity and inequality -- 1.2. Six degrees of connection -- 1.3. Rivers as integrators -- 1.4. Organization of this volume -- 1.5. Understanding rivers -- 1.5.1. Colorado Front Range -- 1.6. Only connect -- ch. 2 Creating channels and channel networks -- 2.1. Generating water, solutes, and sediment -- 2.1.1. Generating water -- 2.1.2. Generating sediment and solutes -- 2.2. Getting water, solutes, and sediment downslope to channels -- 2.2.1. Downslope pathways of water -- 2.2.2. Downslope movement of sediment -- 2.2.3. Processes and patterns of water chemistry entering channels -- 2.2.4. Influence of the riparian zone on fluxes into channels -- 2.3. Channel initiation -- 2.4. Extension and development of the drainage network -- 2.4.1. Morphometric indices and scaling laws -- 2.4.2. Optimality -- 2.5. Spatial differentiation within drainage basins -- 2.6. Summary -- Channel processes I -- ch. 3 Water dynamics -- 3.1. Hydraulics -- 3.1.1. Flow classification -- 3.1.2. Energy, flow state, and hydraulic jumps -- 3.1.3. Uniform flow equations and flow resistance -- 3.1.4. Velocity and turbulence -- 3.1.5. Measures of energy exerted against the channel boundaries -- 3.2. Hydrology -- 3.2.1. Measuring, indirectly estimating, and modeling discharge -- 3.2.2. Flood frequency analysis -- 3.2.3. Hydrographs -- 3.2.4. Other parameters used to characterize discharge -- 3.2.5. Hyporheic exchange and hydrology -- 3.2.6. River hydrology in cold regions -- 3.2.7. Human influences on hydrology -- 3.3. Summary -- Channel processes II -- ch. 4 Fluvial sediment dynamics -- 4.1. channel bed and initiation of motion -- 4.1.1. Bed sediment characterization -- 4.1.2. Entrainment of non-cohesive sediment -- 4.1.3. Erosion of cohesive beds -- 4.2. Sediment transport -- 4.2.1. Dissolved load -- 4.2.2. Suspended load -- 4.2.3. Bed load -- 4.3. Bedforms -- 4.3.1. Readily mobile bedforms -- 4.3.2. Infrequently mobile bedforms -- 4.3.3. Bedforms in cohesive sediments -- 4.4. In-channel depositional processes -- 4.5. Bank stability and erosion -- 4.6. Sediment budgets -- 4.7. Summary -- ch. 5 Channel forms -- 5.1. Cross-sectional geometry -- 5.1.1. Bankfull, dominant, and effective discharge -- 5.1.2. Width to depth ratio -- 5.1.3. Hydraulic geometry -- 5.1.4. Lanes balance -- 5.1.5. Complex response -- 5.1.6. Channel evolution models -- 5.2. Channel planform -- 5.2.1. Straight channels -- 5.2.2. Meandering channels -- 5.2.3. Wandering channels -- 5.2.4. Braided channels -- 5.2.5. Anabranching channels -- 5.2.6. Compound channels -- 5.2.7. Karst channels -- 5.2.8. Continuum concept -- 5.2.9. River metamorphosis -- 5.3. Confluences -- 5.4. River gradient -- 5.4.1. Longitudinal profile -- 5.4.2. Stream gradient index -- 5.4.3. Knickpoints -- 5.5. Adjustment of channel form -- 5.5.1. Extremal hypotheses of channel adjustment -- 5.5.2. Geomorphic effects of floods -- 5.6. Downstream trends -- 5.6.1. Grain size -- 5.6.2. Instream wood -- 5.7. Summary -- ch. 6 Extra-channel environments -- 6.1. Floodplains -- 6.1.1. Depositional processes and floodplain stratigraphy -- 6.1.2. Erosional processes and floodplain turnover times -- 6.1.3. Downstream trends in floodplain form and process -- 6.1.4. Classification of floodplains -- 6.2. Terraces -- 6.2.1. Terrace classifications -- 6.2.2. Mechanisms of terrace formation and preservation -- 6.2.3. Terraces as paleoprofiles and paleoenvironmental indicators -- 6.3. Alluvial Fans -- 6.3.1. Erosional and depositional processes -- 6.3.2. Fan geometry and stratigraphy -- 6.4. Deltas -- 6.4.1. Processes of erosion and deposition -- 6.4.2. Delta morphology and stratigraphy -- 6.4.3. Paleoenvironmental records -- 6.4.4. Deltas in the Anthropocene -- 6.5. Estuaries -- 6.6. Summary -- ch. 7 Humans and rivers -- 7.1. Indirect impacts -- 7.1.1. Climate change -- 7.1.2. Altered land cover -- 7.2. Direct impacts -- 7.2.1. Flow regulation -- 7.2.2. Altered channel form and connectivity -- 7.3. River management in an environmental context -- 7.3.1. Reference conditions -- 7.3.2. Restoration -- 7.3.3. Instream, channel maintenance, and environmental flows -- 7.4. River health -- 7.5. Summary -- ch. 8 Rivers in the landscape -- 8.1. Rivers and topography -- 8.1.1. Tectonic influences on river geometry -- 8.1.2. Effects of river incision on tectonics -- 8.1.3. Indicators of relations between rivers and landscape evolution -- 8.1.4. Tectonics, topography, and large rivers -- 8.2. Geomorphic process domains -- 8.3. Connectivity -- 8.4. Climatic signatures -- 8.4.1. High latitudes -- 8.4.2. Low latitudes -- 8.4.3. Warm drylands -- 8.5. Rivers with a history -- 8.5.1. Upper South Platte River drainage, Colorado, USA -- 8.5.2. Upper Rio Chagres, Panama -- 8.5.3. Mackenzie River drainage, Canada -- 8.5.4. Oregon Coast Range, USA -- 8.5.5. Yuma Wash, Arizona, USA -- 8.6. greater context.

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