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 …

The shaping of erosional landscapes by internal dynamics

JS Scheingross, AB Limaye, SW McCoy… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Erosional landscapes transport sediment downstream, host natural hazards and are
geologically active. While perturbations in external forcing, particularly climate and tectonics …

Dynamic reorganization of river basins

SD Willett, SW McCoy, JT Perron, L Goren, CY Chen - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction River networks, the backbone of most landscapes on Earth, collect and
transport water, sediment, organic matter, and nutrients from upland mountain regions to the …

Vegetation controls on channel network complexity in coastal wetlands

RC Van de Vijsel, J van Belzen, TJ Bouma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Channel networks are key to coastal wetland functioning and resilience under climate
change. Vegetation affects sediment and hydrodynamics in many different ways, which calls …

Aridity is expressed in river topography globally

SA Chen, K Michaelides, SWD Grieve, MB Singer - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
It has long been suggested that climate shapes land surface topography through
interactions between rainfall, runoff and erosion in drainage basins,,–. The longitudinal …

Topographic controls on the extension and retraction of flowing streams

JP Prancevic, JW Kirchner - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flowing stream networks extend and retract as their surrounding landscapes wet up and dry
out, both seasonally and during rainstorms, with implications for aquatic ecosystems and …

Climate and the pace of erosional landscape evolution

JT Perron - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Earth's climate affects nearly all aspects of landscape evolution, from the breakdown of rock
to the delivery of sediment to the oceans. Yet quantifying climate's influence on landscapes …

Catchment coevolution: A useful framework for improving predictions of hydrological change?

PA Troch, T Lahmers, A Meira… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that landscape features have coevolved over time is well known in the Earth
sciences. Hydrologists have recently called for a more rigorous connection between …

A 2D-SWEs framework for efficient catchment-scale simulations: Hydrodynamic scaling properties of river networks and implications for non-uniform grids generation

P Costabile, C Costanzo - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of two-dimensional shallow-water equations models (2D-SWEs) for the
description of hydrodynamic-based surface runoff computations is becoming a reference …

Integrated research methods in watershed science

GD Cheng, X Li - Science China Earth Sciences, 2015 - Springer
We discuss the concepts, research methods, and infrastructure of watershed science. A
watershed is a basic unit and possesses all of the complexities of the land surface system …