کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6541619 1421336 2018 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Characteristics and abundance of large and small instream wood in a Carpathian mixed-forest headwater basin
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Characteristics and abundance of large and small instream wood in a Carpathian mixed-forest headwater basin
چکیده انگلیسی
The effect of instream wood on stream hydraulics and geomorphic processes depends on wood and channel dimensions. We investigated abundance and characteristics (i.e., wood orientation, proportion of spanned channel width, stability and decay classes) of large wood (LW; defined here as having a length ≥ 1 m and a diameter ≥ 0.1 m) and small wood (SW; including two categories with length ≥ 0.5 m and diameter ≥ 0.1 m or length ≥ 1 m and diameter ≥ 0.05 m) in three steep, confined headwater channels of medium-high mountain ranges of the Western Carpathians (Central Europe). Results show that SW is more frequent than LW, however, active-channel LW load varied between 26 and 305 m3∙ha−1, whereas SW showed much lower active-channel load (8-16 m3∙ha−1). Differences between LW and SW active-channel volumes were considerably smaller in streams under dominant deciduous canopy. In these streams, morphological steps - created exclusively by SW - were more frequent than LW steps. This higher frequency of SW in streams surrounded by a deciduous tree canopy can be explained by the continuous supply of branches rather than entire dead trees. On the other hand, the volume and frequency of LW was related to the proportion of conifers in the valley corridor. We observe very high active-channel load in two channel reaches for which values exceeded most of those observed in similarly small streams across the globe. We also observe an unusually large proportion of instream wood (both LW and SW) oriented parallel to the flow direction, which might suggest a higher mobility of bed material in the flysch-dominated headwater channels of our study site.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management - Volume 424, 15 September 2018, Pages 468-482
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