Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Water Resources - Themed Topic, April 2008

Water Resources, April 2008 – Themed Topic, April 2008

The next century will see the interaction between water and sediment undergoing renewed emphasis as we seek to move our understanding of climate change impacts from hydrological changes to the geomorphological consequences of those hydrological changes. This themed issue shows that geomorphologists will be well-placed to do this, recognizing the complex feedbacks that exist between earth surface processes, landforms, hydrology and the biosphere.

Articles in this issue:

Soil degradation in central Spain due to sheet water erosion by low-intensity rainfall events

M. J. Marques, R. Bienes, R. Pérez-Rodríguez, L. Jiménez

Decadal and century-long changes in the reconstruction of erosive rainfall anomalies in a Mediterranean fluvial basin

N. Diodato, M. Ceccarelli, G. Bellocchi

The use of agent based modelling techniques in hydrology: determining the spatial and temporal origin of channel flow in semi-arid catchments

S. M. Reaney

Evolution of channel morphology and hydrologic response in an urbanizing drainage basin

Peter A. Nelson, James A. Smith, Andrew J. Milleratajc, Ivan Kodri

Curtailing water erosion of cultivated land: an example from north Norfolk, eastern England

Robert Evans

Impact of groundwater flow on meandering; example from the Geul River, The Netherlands

R. T. van Balen, C. Kasse, J. De Moor

Measuring streambank erosion due to ground water seepage: correlation to bank pore water pressure, precipitation and stream stage

Garey A. Fox, Glenn V. Wilson, Andrew Simon, Eddy J. Langendoen, Onur Akay, John W. Fuchs

Channel adjustments, bedload transport and sediment sources in a gravel-bed river, Brenta River, Italy

Nicola Surian, Alberto Cisotto

Stream geomorphology in a mountain lake district: hydraulic geometry, sediment sources and sinks, and downstream lake effects

C. D. Arp, J. C. Schmidt, M. A. Baker, A. K. Myers

Wood as a driver of past landscape change along river corridors

Robert A. Francis, Geoff E. Petts, Angela M. Gurnell

A new model to analyse the impact of woody riparian vegetation on the geotechnical stability of riverbanks

Marco J. Van De Wiel, Stephen E. Darby

Ecosystem expansion and contraction dynamics along a large Alpine alluvial corridor (Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy)

M. Doering, U. Uehlinger, A. Rotach, D. R. Schlaepfer, K. Tockner

Modeling fluvial response to in-stream woody vegetation: implications for stream corridor restoration

Sean J. Bennett, Weiming Wu, Carlos V. Alonso, Sam S. Y. Wang

Interactions between sediment delivery, channel change, climate change and flood risk in a temperate upland environment

S. N. Lane, V. Tayefi, S. C. Reid, D. Yu, R. J. Hardy

Temporal relations between meander deformation, water discharge and sediment fluxes in the floodplain of the Rio Beni (Bolivian Amazonia)

E. Gautier, D. Brunstein, P. Vauchel, M. Roulet, O. Fuertes, J. L. Guyot, J. Darozzes, L. Bourrel