کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5743790 1617997 2017 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Pioneer macrophyte species engineer fine-scale physical heterogeneity in a shallow lowland river
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
گونه های ماکروفیت پیشگام مهندس سطح ناهمگونی فیزیکی در یک رودخانه کم عمق است
کلمات کلیدی
مهندسین اکوسیستم، مکروفیدها، هیدروژئومورفولوژی، جانشینی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- We assessed interactions between macrophytes, hydraulics and substrate type.
- Macrophyte species enhance hydraulic and substrate heterogeneity.
- Macrophytes manipulate channel morphology and hydraulics by stabilising sediment.
- Pioneer macrophyte species are a key response to altered fine-sediment loads.
- These ecosystem engineers can stimulate recovery of physical processes.

Macrophyte responses to disturbance provide a short-term opportunity to document and interpret plant succession and related hydrogeomorphological interactions relative to the long-term, concomitant evolution of river morphology. Macrophyte colonisation may drive changes, e.g., increasing heterogeneity in physical characteristics that define broad-scale hydrogeomorphology. Relationships between macrophyte presence and key physical descriptors were investigated within channelized river reaches of a low gradient river. Plant species within two morphotypes sharing similar traits were the most abundant colonisers of the wetted channel. The standard deviation of depth, flow velocity and substrate were used in turn as response variables expressing physical heterogeneity across the channel. A second substrate response variable was the summed coarseness score based on substrate size (fines = 1, gravel = 2 and cobble = 3) across the channel. Macrophyte presence showed strong fine-scale relationships to heterogeneity in flow velocity and depth but not to heterogeneity in substrate. Substrate coarseness score was positively related to increasing heterogeneity in flow velocity, with increased presence of coarse substrate indicative of greater heterogeneity in velocity. Certain macrophyte species appear to play an important pioneer role in initiating and driving physical changes that underlie hydrogeomorphological processes. Likely mechanisms are flow manipulation, sediment interception and sorting.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Engineering - Volume 102, May 2017, Pages 451-458
نویسندگان
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