Trees and shrubs as components of the storage of coarse particulate organic matter and instream wood in Mediterranean intermittent streams

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1642359322000477?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1642359322000477?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2022.08.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecohyd.2022.08.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trees and shrubs as components of the storage of coarse particulate organic matter and instream wood in Mediterranean intermittent streams

Original language description

Coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) and large instream wood (LW) belong to elements transported by stream flows, but their pattern of storage in nonperennial streams remains unclear, especially in the relationship with living trees and shrubs living in the active channels. This study evaluates the role of woody plants that occupy relatively wide active channels of nonperennial streams on the storage of CPOM and LW. All CPOM, LW and woody plants were inventoried along 18 transects in three mutually distinct reaches of intermittent streams in Peloponnese, Greece. We observed high variations of the CPOM (4.85 m3/ha - 15.65 m3/ha) and LW volumes (1.95 m3/ha - 13.35 m3/ha) deposited in the studied reaches with their highest abundance in the confined reach upstream of a landslide-related knickpoint. Woody plants were recognised as an important trapping element for CPOM in the case of a sufficient frequency of shrubs and trees in the active channel, which was not the case for the lowland reach with the far lowest measured basal area of the stems (1.84 m2/ha) in contrast to the other reaches (9.80 m2/ha and 6.32 m2/ha). A positive association was found between the basal area of the stems and the volume of CPOM deposits. However, the importance of woody plants in LW storage was confirmed only for the transects with abundant large trees with diameters greater than 0.1 m occupying the channel. The function of trees and shrubs not only as sources, but also as retention elements, should be carefully considered in the establishment of CPOM and LW budgets in nonperennial fluvial systems

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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology

ISSN

1642-3593

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

553-564

UT code for WoS article

000888576900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137716248