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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-1115-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-1115-2018
Research article
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23 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2018

Impacts of a large flood along a mountain river basin: the importance of channel widening and estimating the large wood budget in the upper Emme River (Switzerland)

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, Alexandre Badoux, Dieter Rickenmann, Martin Böckli, Salome Schläfli, Nicolas Steeb, Markus Stoffel, and Christian Rickli

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