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A River Ran Through It: Floodplains as America’s Newest Relict Landform

preprint

A comparison of surface sampling methods for coarse fluvial sediments

A conceptual model for the longitudinal distribution of wood in mountain streams

scientific article published on 09 January 2009

A geomorphic classification of ephemeral channels in a mountainous, arid region, southwestern Arizona, USA

A legacy of absence

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

A two end-member model of wood dynamics in headwater neotropical rivers

article

ALTERNATIVE STATES OF STREAM FORM, FUNCTION, AND CARBON STORAGE INDUCED BY HISTORIC LAND USE IN FORESTED WATERSHEDS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS

All Logjams Are Not Created Equal

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 126 no. 8, August 2021

An Integrative Conceptualization of Floodplain Storage

scientific article

An evaluation of stream characteristics in glacial versus fluvial process domains in the Colorado Front Range

scientific article published on 08 December 2014

Assessing climate impacts

scientific article (publication date: 10 October 2000)

Assessment of coarse sediment mobility in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Colorado

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Assessment of stream ecosystem function and sensitivity in the Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming.

scientific article published on 4 June 2007

Banking carbon: a review of organic carbon storage and physical factors influencing retention in floodplains and riparian ecosystems

article

Beaver‐mediated lateral hydrologic connectivity, fluvial carbon and nutrient flux, and aquatic ecosystem metabolism

scientific article published in June 2017

Bedrock fracture influences on geomorphic process and form across process domains and scales

scientific article published on 6 August 2018

Biogeomorphic influences on river corridor resilience to wildfire disturbances in a mountain stream of the Southern Rockies, USA

scientific article

Biogeomorphic processes, spatial heterogeneity, and river corridor resilience to stand-killing wildfire

Biotic Drivers of Stream Planform

scientific article

Bridging the gaps: An overview of wood across time and space in diverse rivers

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

CHANGES IN CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH PLACER MINING

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

CHANGES IN INSTREAM WOOD OVER TIME AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF LOG JAMS ON FLOODPLAIN DYNAMICS IN TWO RIVERS IN INTERIOR ALASKA

scholarly article by Jessamyn Benshoof et al published 2016 in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

CONTROLS ON THE LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF CHANNEL-SPANNING LOGJAMS IN THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE, USA

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Canyons with undulating walls

scholarly article

Carbon dynamics of river corridors and the effects of human alterations

article

Carbon storage in mountainous headwater streams: The role of old-growth forest and logjams

scientific article published on 03 March 2014

Channel and woody debris characteristics in adjacent burned and unburned watersheds a decade after wildfire, Park County, Wyoming

scholarly article by Ronald B. Zelt & Ellen E. Wohl published February 2004 in Geomorphology

Characteristics of log and clast bed-steps in step-pool streams of northwestern Montana, USA

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Characterizing spatial variability in velocity and turbulence intensity using 3-D acoustic Doppler velocimeter data in a plane-bed reach of East St. Louis Creek, Colorado, USA

Common core themes in geomorphic, ecological, and social systems

scientific article

Compromised Rivers: Understanding Historical Human Impacts on Rivers in the Context of Restoration

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Conceptual model for complex river responses using an expanded Lane's relation

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Conceptualizing rivers as ecosystems

scientific article

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

scientific article published in 2018

Connectivity in rivers

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Controls on Pool Characteristics along a Resistant‐Boundary Channel

scholarly article

Controls on bedrock channel incision along nahal paran, Israel

scientific article published on 03 February 2007

Damming the wood falls

scientific article

Dams in the Cadillac Desert: downstream effects in a geomorphic context

scientific article

Debris flows as geomorphic agents in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona

scientific article published in October 1991

Destabilization of streambanks by removal of invasive species in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona

article

Development of a geomorphic monitoring strategy for stage 0 restoration in the South Fork McKenzie River, Oregon, USA

scientific article published on 05 March 2022

Distribution of Large Wood Within River Corridors in Relation to Flow Regime in the Semiarid Western US

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Downstream effects of stream flow diversion on channel characteristics and riparian vegetation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA

scientific article published on 17 September 2014

Effects of forest stand age on the characteristics of logjams in mountainous forest streams

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Elevational differences in hydrogeomorphic disturbance regime influence sediment residence times within mountain river corridors

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Establishing a context for river rehabilitation, North Fork Gunnison River, Colorado

scientific article published in May 2005

Estimating fluvial wood discharge using time-lapse photography with varying sampling intervals

scientific article published on 04 February 2014

Estimating widespread beaver dam loss: Habitat decline and surface storage loss at a regional scale

scientific article

Evaluating carbon storage on subalpine lake deltas

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Evaluating channel response to an extreme sedimentation event in the context of historical range of variability: Upper Colorado River, USA

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Examining the effect of geomorphic characteristics on pool temperatures for native fish habitat management in mountainous stream networks

scientific article

Factors Controlling Sediment Load in The Central Anatolia Region of Turkey: Ankara River Basin.

scientific article

Feedbacks in human-landscape systems

scientific article

Field-derived relationships for flow velocity and resistance in high-gradient streams

Floodplain downed wood volumes: a comparison across three biomes

scientific article published in 2016

Floodplain dynamics in North American permafrost regions under a warming climate and implications for organic carbon stocks: A review and synthesis

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Floodplains and wood

scientific article published on 07 May 2013

Flow and wake characteristics associated with large wood to inform river restoration

scientific article

Flow resistance dynamics in step-pool channels: 2. Partitioning between grain, spill, and woody debris resistance

article by Andrew C. Wilcox et al published May 2006 in Water Resources Research

Flow resistance dynamics in step-pool stream channels: 1. Large woody debris and controls on total resistance

article by Andrew C. Wilcox & Ellen E. Wohl published May 2006 in Water Resources Research

Forgotten Legacies: Understanding and Mitigating Historical Human Alterations of River Corridors

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Geomorphic Controls on Floodplain Soil Organic Carbon in the Yukon Flats, Interior Alaska, From Reach to River Basin Scales

scholarly article by Katherine B. Lininger et al published March 2018 in Water Resources Research

Geomorphic and process domain controls on riparian zones in the Colorado Front Range

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Geomorphic context in rivers

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Geomorphic regulation of floodplain soil organic carbon concentration in watersheds of the Rocky and Cascade Mountains, USA

scientific article published on 23 November 2018

Geomorphic response to an extreme flood in two Mediterranean rivers (northeastern Sardinia, Italy): Analysis of controlling factors

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework. By Gary J. Brierley and Kirstie A. Fryirs. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 398 pages, 154 illustrations. $99.95 paper

scientific article published in September 2005

Geomorphology and climate interact to control organic carbon stock and age in mountain river valley bottoms

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Geostatistical analysis of the effects of stage and roughness on reach-scale spatial patterns of velocity and turbulence intensity

Historic range of variability in geomorphic processes as a context for restoration: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Historical land use as a driver of alternative states for stream form and function in forested mountain watersheds of the Southern Rocky Mountains

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

How does anisotropy in bedrock river granitic outcrops influence pothole genesis and development?

article

How geomorphic context governs the influence of wildfire on floodplain organic carbon in fire‐prone environments of the western United States

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

Human impacts to mountain streams

scientific article published on 07 August 2006

Hydraulics, morphology, and energy dissipation in an alpine step-pool channel

article by Andrew C. Wilcox et al published July 2011 in Water Resources Research

Identification of Artificial Levees in the Contiguous United States

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

Impacts to Water Quality and Fish Habitat Associated with Maintaining Natural Channels for Flood Control

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Influences on wood load in mountain streams of the Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming, USA

scientific article published on 6 June 2008

Instream large wood loads across bioclimatic regions

scientific article published in 2017

Instream wood loads in montane forest streams of the Colorado Front Range, USA

scientific article published on 02 February 2015

Interactions between pool geometry and hydraulics

Introduction to the Wood in World Rivers special issue

scientific article

Introduction to the special issue on discontinuity of fluvial systems

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Introduction to the special issue: Connectivity in Geomorphology

scientific article published on 09 November 2016

Introduction to the themed issue: Wildfire and Geomorphic Systems

scientific article published in 2018

Laboratory Flume and Numerical Modeling Experiments Show Log Jams and Branching Channels Increase Hyporheic Exchange

Land before water: The relative temporal sequence of human alteration of freshwater ecosystems in the conterminous United States

Landscape-scale carbon storage associated with beaver dams

scholarly article

Large in-stream wood studies: a call for common metrics

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

Large woody debris and flow resistance in step-pool channels, Cascade Range, Washington

article by Janet Curran & Ellen E. Wohl published March 2003 in Geomorphology

Leaky rivers: Implications of the loss of longitudinal fluvial disconnectivity in headwater streams

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Legacy effects of loss of beavers in the continental United States

scientific article

Legacy effects on sediments in river corridors

article

Levees don't protect, they disconnect: A critical review of how artificial levees impact floodplain functions

scientific article published in 2022

Limits of downstream hydraulic geometry

scientific article published in 2004

Linking theory and practice for restoration of step-pool streams

scientific article published on 29 July 2008

Lithological and fluvial controls on the geomorphology of tropical montane stream channels in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Logjam attenuation of annual sediment waves in eolian-fluvial environments, North Park, Colorado, USA

scientific article

Logjams and Channel Morphology Influence Sediment Storage, Transformation of Organic Matter, and Carbon Storage Within Mountain Stream Corridors

scientific article

Logjams as a driver of transient storage in a mountain stream

scientific article

Management of Large Wood in Streams: An Overview and Proposed Framework for Hazard Evaluation

scientific article published on 08 February 2016

Managing for large wood and beaver dams in stream corridors

Mapping longitudinal stream connectivity in the North St. Vrain Creek watershed of Colorado

Mechanisms of carbon storage in mountainous headwater rivers

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Modeling the functional influence of vegetation type on streambank cohesion

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Multiscale structural and lithologic controls in the development of stream potholes on granite bedrock rivers

article

Natural and Anthropogenic Controls on Wood Loads in River Corridors of the Rocky, Cascade, and Olympic Mountains, USA

scientific article published on 07 July 2018

Natural infrastructure in dryland streams (NIDS) can establish regenerative wetland sinks that reverse desertification and strengthen climate resilience

scientific article published in November 2022

Neighborhood matters: Patterns and controls on wood distribution in old-growth forest streams of the Colorado Front Range, USA

scientific article published on 19 September 2010

Of wood and rivers: bridging the perception gap

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

Organic carbon storage in floodplain soils of the U.S. prairies

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

PROCESSES GOVERNING HYDROCHORY ALONG RIVERS: HYDRAULICS, HYDROLOGY, AND DISPERSAL PHENOLOGY

scholarly article by David M. Merritt & Ellen E. Wohl published August 2002 in Ecological Applications

Particle dynamics: The continuum of bedrock to alluvial river segments

scientific article published on 25 April 2015

Patterns of Bedrock Channel Erosion on the Boso Peninsula, Japan

scientific article published in May 1998

Patterns of Floodplain Spatial Heterogeneity in the Southern Rockies, USA

scientific article

Patterns of organic matter accumulation in dryland river corridors of the southwestern United States

scientific article published on 09 April 2022

Perceptions of wood in rivers and challenges for stream restoration in the United States

scientific article

Phosphorus in the river corridor

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

Plant dispersal along rivers fragmented by dams

scientific article published on 30 November 2005

Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Quantitatively Estimating Carbon Sequestration Potential in Soil and Large Wood in the Context of River Restoration

scientific article

Reach-scale channel geometry of a mountain river

scientific article published on 21 July 2004

Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert

scientific article

Rediscovering, Reevaluating, and Restoring Lost River-Wetland Corridors

Redistribution of forest carbon caused by patch blowdowns in subalpine forests of the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA

scientific article published on 08 November 2013

Refining Geomorphic Heterogeneity as a Framework for Assessing River Corridor Processes and Characteristics

Reflections on the history of research on large wood in rivers

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Remote sensing of large wood in high‐resolution satellite imagery: Design of an automated classification work‐flow for multiple wood deposit types

scientific article

River beads as a conceptual framework for building carbon storage and resilience to extreme climate events into river management

River network saturation concept: factors influencing the balance of biogeochemical supply and demand of river networks

River restoration

Rivers in the Anthropocene: The U.S. perspective

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Rules of the road: A qualitative and quantitative synthesis of large wood transport through drainage networks

scientific article published in February 2017

Seasonal and diurnal fluctuations of coarse particulate organic matter transport in a snowmelt‐dominated stream

Sediment storage and shallow groundwater response to beaver dam analogues in the Colorado Front Range, USA

scientific article

Sedimentation and sustainability of western American reservoirs

article

Shifting stream planform state decreases stream productivity yet increases riparian animal production.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Significant Floodplain Soil Organic Carbon Storage Along a Large High‐Latitude River and its Tributaries

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Sources and interpretation of channel complexity in forested subalpine streams of the Southern Rocky Mountains

scientific article published on 02 May 2016

Spatial Distribution of Channel and Floodplain Large Wood in Forested River Corridors of the Northern Rockies

Spatial heterogeneity as a component of river geomorphic complexity

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Stable isotope composition of soil organic matter and phytoliths as paleoenvironmental indicators

scientific article published in February 1998

Substantial soil organic carbon retention along floodplains of mountain streams

article

Substrate Influences on Incised‐Channel Morphology

scientific article

Substrate Influences on Step-Pool Sequences in the Christopher Creek Drainage, Arizona.

scientific article

THE INFLUENCE OF CHANNEL MIGRATION RATE AND GRAIN SIZE ON DIFFERENCES IN FLOODPLAIN ORGANIC CARBON STORAGE BETWEEN TWO RIVERS IN INTERIOR ALASKA

scholarly article by Katherine B. Lininger et al published 2016 in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PERCEPTIONS AND FEEDBACKS FOR EFFECTIVELY MANAGING WOOD IN RIVERS

scientific article published on 24 October 2012

Thank You to Our 2019 Reviewers

scientific article

Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers

scientific article

The Natural Sediment Regime in Rivers: Broadening the Foundation for Ecosystem Management

article

The Natural Wood Regime in Rivers

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

The beaver meadow complex revisited - the role of beavers in post-glacial floodplain development

scientific article published on 08 November 2011

The complexity of the real world in the context of the field tradition in geomorphology

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

The effects of longitudinal variations in valley geometry and wood load on flood response

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

The fate of sediment, wood, and organic carbon eroded during an extreme flood, Colorado Front Range, USA

scholarly article

The future of human-landscape interactions: drawing on the past, anticipating the future

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

The hydrology of the humid tropics

scholarly article by Ellen E. Wohl et al published 15 July 2012 in Nature Climate Change

The impacts of ski slope development on stream channel morphology in the White River National Forest, Colorado, USA

scientific article published on 17 July 2008

The linkage between velocity patterns and sediment entrainment in a forced-pool and riffle unit

article published in 2009

The loss of large wood affects rocky mountain trout populations

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

The persistence of beaver‐induced geomorphic heterogeneity and organic carbon stock in river corridors

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

The pulse of driftwood export from a very large forested river basin over multiple time scales, Slave River, Canada

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

The relationship of lithology and watershed characteristics to fine sediment deposition in streams of the Oregon coast range

scientific article published on May 2006

The resilience of logjams to floods

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

The science and practice of river restoration

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Threshold-induced complex behavior of wood in mountain streams

scholarly article

Transient organic jams in Puerto Rican mountain streams after hurricanes

scientific article published in 2019

Trends of grain sizes on gravel bars in the Rio Chagres, Panama

Understanding human-landscape interactions in the "Anthropocene".

scientific article published on 22 June 2013

Using ground penetrating radar to ‘unearth’ buried beaver dams

scholarly article

Velocity characteristics along a small step-pool channel

article by Ellen E. Wohl & Douglas Thompson published April 2000 in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Velocity reversals and sediment sorting in pools and riffles controlled by channel constrictions

article

Viewing river corridors through the lens of critical zone science

What Is a Natural River?

scientific article published on 11 July 2007

What should these rivers look like? Historical range of variability and human impacts in the Colorado Front Range, USA

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

Where Does Wood Most Effectively Enhance Storage? Network-Scale Distribution of Sediment and Organic Matter Stored by Instream Wood

scientific article published on 05 December 2017

Why Rivers Need Their Floodplains

scientific article

Wilderness is dead: Whither critical zone studies and geomorphology in the Anthropocene?

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Wildfire and the patterns of floodplain large wood on the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Wood Jam Dynamics Database and Assessment Model (WooDDAM): A framework to measure and understand wood jam characteristics and dynamics

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Wood and sediment storage and dynamics in river corridors

scientific article published on 23 January 2016

Wood distribution along streams draining old-growth floodplain forests in Congaree National Park, South Carolina, USA

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

Wood distribution in neotropical forested headwater streams of La Selva, Costa Rica

scientific article published on 02 June 2009

Wood dynamics in headwater streams of the Colorado Rocky Mountains

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Wood process domains and wood loads on floodplains

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Wood-mediated geomorphic effects of a jökulhlaup in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming

scientific article published on 19 February 2008