Large wood as a confounding factor in  interpreting the width of spring-fed streams

Lapides, Dana Ariel; Manga, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-195-2020

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-195-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-195-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Research article

|

19 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 19 Mar 2020

Large wood as a confounding factor in interpreting the width of spring-fed streams

Dana Ariel Lapides and Michael Manga

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-195-2020-supplement

Data sets

Large Wood as a Confounding Factor in Interpreting the Width of Spring-Fed Streams: Datasets and Supplementary Material Dana Lapides and Michael Manga https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3517298

Short summary

Spring-fed streams throughout volcanic regions of the western United States are wider than runoff-fed streams with similar flow levels. We used high-resolution satellite imagery in combination with flow and climate data to examine the relationship between wood loading and stream width in 38 spring-fed and 20 runoff-fed streams. This study identifies distinct wood dynamics in spring-fed and runoff-fed streams and a strong correlation between stream width and wood length in spring-fed streams.