Characteristics of large wood in a headwater channel after an extraordinary event: The roles of transport agents and check dams

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.010" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.010" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Characteristics of large wood in a headwater channel after an extraordinary event: The roles of transport agents and check dams

Original language description

High-magnitude hydrogeomorphic events in steep streams (e.g., debris flows and debris floods) are capable of transporting considerable quantities of bed material, including large wood, although wood pieces that are longer than the channel width are often perceived as relatively stable elements in narrow headwater channels. We investigated present large wood distribution along 1.7?km of a steep headwater channel (the Klepáčský Stream; Eastern Sudetes; NE Czech Republic) surrounded by managed forests and engineered by twelve check dams (presently at various stages of destruction). The total wood volume was measured at 123.0?m3, including wood deposited on adjacent terraces by a high-magnitude hydrogeomorphic event in 2010 representing a ca. 20-30?year recurrence interval. Approximately a half of the total wood volume (58%) was stored in large jams (?10 large wood pieces) that originated during that event. We observed reach controls (based on transport agents and valley morphology) and local controls (represented by individual check dams) of LW depositional patterns. The uppermost debris flow-affected reach produced high volumes of mobilised wood, including many pieces that were two-to-three times longer than the local active channel width; significantly shorter and thinner pieces were found within large jams in downstream reaches void of debris-flow processes. We also documented that this high-magnitude event was responsible for the notable out-of-channel storage of large wood, which decreases the volume of wood that might be transported by a future event. In addition, 30.5?m3 of large wood, that is ~one-quarter of the total volume measured along the stream, was deposited in relation to twelve damaged check dams despite their lowered trapping efficiency.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CATENA

ISSN

0341-8162

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

165

Issue of the periodical within the volume

červen

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

537-550

UT code for WoS article

000430994900053

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85043490961