Corenblit, Dov and Davies, Neil S. and Steiger, Johannes and Gibling, Martin R. and Bornette, Gudrun (2015) Considering river structure and stability in the light of evolution: feedbacks between riparian vegetation and hydrogeomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40 (2). pp. 189-207. ISSN 0197-9337, ESSN: 1096-9837
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Abstract
River ecological functioning can be conceptualized according to a four-dimensional framework, based on the responses of aquatic and riparian communities to hydrogeomorphic constraints along the longitudinal, transverse, vertical and temporal dimensions of rivers. Contemporary riparian vegetation responds to river dynamics at ecological timescales, but riparian vegetation, in one form or another, has existed on Earth since at least the Middle Ordovician (c. 450 Ma) and has been a significant controlling factor on river geomorphology since the Late Silurian (c. 420 Ma). On such evolutionary timescales, plant adaptations to the fluvial environment and the subsequent effects of these adaptations on fluvial sediment and landform dynamics resulted in the emergence, from the Silurian to the Carboniferous, of a variety of contrasted fluvial biogeomorphic types where water flow, morphodynamics and vegetation interacted to different degrees. Here we identify several of these types and describe the consequences for biogeomorphic structure and stability (i.e. resistance and resilience), along the four river dimensions, of feedbacks between riparian plants and hydrogeomorphic processes on contrasting ecological and evolutionary timescales.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | 2014AREP; IA68; |
Subjects: | 02 - Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics |
Divisions: | 02 - Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics |
Journal or Publication Title: | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
Volume: | 40 |
Page Range: | pp. 189-207 |
Depositing User: | Sarah Humbert |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2015 18:16 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2015 17:56 |
URI: | http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/id/eprint/3230 |
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