Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

T Heckmann, M Cavalli, O Cerdan, S Foerster… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Indices of connectivity are critical means for moving from qualitative to (semi-) quantitative
evaluations of material (eg, water, sediment and nutrients) transfer across the building …

Suspended sediment transport dynamics in rivers: Multi-scale drivers of temporal variation

K Vercruysse, RC Grabowski, RJ Rickson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Suspended sediment is a natural part of river systems and plays an essential role in
structuring the landscape, creating ecological habitats and transporting nutrients. It is also a …

Sediment connectivity concepts and approaches

S Najafi, D Dragovich, T Heckmann, SH Sadeghi - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years the concept of connectivity has emerged in sediment management to
describe transfer of sediment from different sections of landscapes at various spatial and …

SedInConnect: a stand-alone, free and open source tool for the assessment of sediment connectivity

S Crema, M Cavalli - Computers & Geosciences, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a growing call, within the scientific community, for solid theoretic frameworks and
usable indices/models to assess sediment connectivity. Connectivity plays a significant role …

The effects of land use and topographic changes on sediment connectivity in mountain catchments

M Llena, D Vericat, M Cavalli, S Crema… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the evolution of sediment connectivity associated with different land use and
topographic changes is a prerequisite for a better understanding of sediment budgets and …

The role of human activities on sediment connectivity of shallow landslides

MG Persichillo, M Bordoni, M Cavalli, S Crema… - Catena, 2018 - Elsevier
Sediment connectivity within a catchment depends largely on the morphological complexity
of the catchment and is strictly related to the anthropogenic modification of the landscape. In …

Challenges of mapping, modelling and quantifying sediment connectivity

J Hooke, J Souza - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Major advances continue to be made in development and application of the connectivity
concept as a framework for analysis of runoff and sediment fluxes in catchments and …

Computing structural and functional flow and sediment connectivity with a new aggregated index: A case study in a large Mediterranean catchment

M López-Vicente, N Ben-Salem - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrological connectivity in large catchments is influenced by natural and human-induced
heterogeneities and dynamic processes. In this study, a new aggregated index (AIC) based …

Land use and land cover change-induced changes of sediment connectivity and their effects on sediment yield in a catchment on the Loess Plateau in China

W Liu, C Shi, Y Ma, H Li, X Ma - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of landscape pattern in catchments has a great impact on the
potential sediment detachment and transport capacity. In this study, a sediment connectivity …

Hydrogeomorphic processes and scaling issues in the continuum from soil pedons to catchments

RC Sidle, T Gomi, JCL Usuga, B Jarihani - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Understanding integrated hydrological phenomena in catchments is difficult because of the
fragmented nature of soil physical and hydrological data, given these are typically derived …