Journal article
Passive Recovery of Wood Loads in Rivers
JC Stout, ID Rutherfurd, J Grove, AJ Webb, A Kitchingman, Z Tonkin, J Lyon
Water Resources Research | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1029/2017WR021071
Abstract
A growing worldwide body of literature is demonstrating the geomorphic and ecological roles played by wood in rivers. After more than a century of removing wood from rivers in many parts of the world, researchers and managers are now interested in returning the load of wood back to a more natural condition. The mechanical placement of wood in rivers is expensive, and so it is useful to know how long it will take for in-stream wood loads to passively recover a target load by recruitment from riparian forests. Of fundamental interest to managers and researchers alike are the questions: (1) can a river passively recover to a preremoval load of wood, and (2) if so, how long will recovery take? W..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is financially supported by a research grant funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water Environment and Planning Victoria and the Arthur Rylah Institute. Stout was the recipient of a MIRS/MIFRS PhD scholarship through the University of Melbourne. None of the authors have real or perceived conflicts of interest regarding the results published in this paper. We wish to thank the four anonymous reviewers whose comments resulted in a much stronger model and better paper. We thank members of the Northeast Catchment Management Authority for assistance in contacting landholders. We also wish to thank the field crew: Sarah McSweeney, Fabio Delai, Harriet Moore, and Crystal Burry for working many long and hot hours measuring logs. Data and the script of the model used in this paper are available from Griffith Research Data Repository: https://www120.secure.griffith.edu.au/research/items/4195e1c7-1b8b-4e04-90ef-db10e3c64ed7/1/.