Rivers in the Landscape : Science and Management.

Intro -- Rivers in the Landscape -- 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 The Colorado Front Range -- 1.6 Only connect -- 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 ofwater -- 2.2.2 Downslope movement ofsediment -- 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 -- 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 coldregions -- 3.2.7 Human influences on hydrology -- 3.3 Summary -- Channel processes II -- 4 Fluvial sediment dynamics -- 4.1 The 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 8 Rivers in the landscape -- 8.1 Rivers and topography -- 8.1.1 Tectonic influences on rivergeometry -- 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 The greater context -- References -- Index.

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