Biogeomorphology, Terrestrial and Freshwater Systems

C.R. Hupp, Waite Osterkamp, A.D. Howard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780444818676
• eBook ISBN:
  9780444598622
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Biogeomorphology, a relatively new term, refers to relations between the biota and geomorphic form and process. Ecology is the study of organisms in relation to their physical and biotic environment. Thus, ecogeomorphology could have been an equally acceptable name for this publication which stresses the ecological aspects of the larger field of biology. Most of the articles relate vegetation to fluvial geomorphology, erosion, and sedimentation. However, articles showing the significance of animal ecological studies and their bearing on geomorphic form and process are also included.Geographically the papers range from arid areas in the American Southwest and Israel to the new world tropics. Most articles, however, are concerned with temperate areas of North America and Western Europe.This is among the first books to approach the role that biota and ecology play in geomorphic processes and should be on the shelf of every landscape ecologist.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Biogeomorphology, Terrestrial and Freshwater Systems
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Little River revisited — thirty-five years after Hack and Goodlett
• Chapter 2. Ecological perspectives on rock surface weathering: Towards a conceptual model
• Chapter 3. Effects of vegetation change on interrill runoff and erosion, Walnut Gulch, southern Arizona
• Chapter 4. Interactions between semi-natural vegetation and hydrogeomorphological processes
• Chapter 5. Flow resistance and sediment transport by concentrated overland flow in a grassland valley
• Chapter 6. Short and long term effects of bioturbation on soil erosion, water resources and soil development in an arid environment
• Chapter 7. Geobotanical assessment in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and Himalaya
• Chapter 8. Channel metamorphosis, floodplain disturbance, and vegetation development: Ain River, France
• Chapter 9. Larg e woody debris, physical process, and riparian forest development in montane river networks of the Pacific Northwest
• Chapter 10. River stabilisation due to changing climate and vegetation during the late Quaternary in western Tasmania, Australia
• Chapter 11. Mapping the response of riparian vegetation to possible flow reductions in the Snake River, Idaho
• Chapter 12. Woody vegetation and channel morphogenesis in low-gradient, gravel-bed streams in the Ozark Plateaus, Missouri and Arkansas
• Chapter 13. Geomorphology, disturbance, and the soil and vegetation of two subtropical wet steepland watersheds of Puerto Rico
• Chapter 14. Spatial patterns of hydrology, geomorphology, and vegetation on the floodplain of the Amazon River in Brazil from a remot e sensing perspective
• Chapter 15. The cow as a geomorphic agent — A critical review
• Chapter 16. Sedimentation rates and patterns in beaver ponds in a mountain environment
• Chapter 17. A recent downward expansion of shoreline shrubs at Lake Bienville (subarctic Quebec)
• Chapter 18. Geomorphological controls on coastal vegetation at the Virginia Coast Reserve
• Chapter 19. How does floodplain width affect floodplain river ecology? A preliminary exploration using simulations
• Chapter 20. Modelling the links between vegetation and landforms
• Chapter 21. Biogeomorphology and landscape evolution: The problem of scale