With two and a half weeks left for abstract submission, we would like to draw your attention to session EP017- Ecohydraulics: Interactions of Vegetation, Water, and Sediment in Rivers and Wetlands at the December AGU meeting. We hope for broad participation from the range of relevant disciplines (ecology, geomorphology, hydrology, engineering,...) and a vigorous interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Please read the session description below, and if interested submit an abstract by Tues, Aug 8th.
Best regards from the conveners, John Stella, [email protected] Anne Lightbody, [email protected] Jaime Goode, [email protected] Dan Cadol, [email protected] Andrew Wilcox, [email protected] (hon.) EP017- Ecohydraulics: Interactions of Vegetation, Water, and Sediment in Rivers and Wetlands Interactions between flow, sediment and vegetation play a critical role in the hydraulics, geomorphology, and vegetation dynamics within river channels, floodplains, marshes and other wetlands. Flow resistance caused by plants and woody debris can alter sediment and chemical transport, accretion, scour, and deposition; plant roots, substrate, and groundwater exert mutual influences below ground. These interactions affect plant dispersal, recruitment, growth and mortality. This session will analyze feedbacks and one-way drivers between vegetation and morphodynamics in river and wetland environments using laboratory, field, and modeling techniques, and consider implications for management and restoration.
