EP52B:
River-Floodplain Connectivity: Interactions Among Riparian Vegetation, Fluvial Wood, Stream Morphodynamics, and Biogeochemical Cycles I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Gabrielle C David, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, John C Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States, Hervé Piegay, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France and Brett C Eaton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Conveners:  John C Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Hervé Piegay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, Lyon, France, Gabrielle C David, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States and Brett C Eaton, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Gabrielle C David, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Co-evolution of Riparian Vegetation and Channel Dynamics in an Aggrading Braided River System, Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
Tal Michal, Aix-Marseille University, CEREGE UMR 7330, Aix en Provence, France and Karen B Gran, Univ Minnesota, Duluth, MN, United States
10:35 AM
 
Sediment Supply as a Control on Plant-Morphodynamic Interactions
Rebecca Manners1, Andrew C Wilcox1, LI Kui2, John C Stella3, Anne Lightbody4 and Leonard S Sklar5, (1)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States, (5)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
10:50 AM
 
Precipitation v. River Discharge Controls on Water Availability to Riparian Trees in the Rhône River Delta
Michael Bliss Singer1,2, Christopher Ian Sargeant3, Christine Vallet-Coulomb4, Cristina Evans3 and Charles Richard Bates3, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (2)Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (4)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France
11:05 AM
 
Physical controls and patterns of recruitment on the Drôme River (SE France): An analysis based on a chronosequence of high resolution aerial imagery
Hervé Piegay1, John C Stella2 and Bianca Raepple1, (1)Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, Lyon, France, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States
11:20 AM
 
Floods and Fluvial Wood
Francesco Comiti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
11:35 AM
 
The Geomorphic Role of Large Woody Debris in River Avulsions
Justin C Stout1, James Robin Grove2, Ian Rutherfurd2 and Philip Marren2, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
11:50 AM
 
Geologic, biogeomorphic, and hydrologic controls on floodplain organic carbon retention in mountainous headwater streams of the Colorado Front Range, USA
Nicholas A Sutfin and Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
12:05 PM
 
Approaches to defining reference regimes for river restoration planning
Timothy J Beechie, Northwest Fisheries Sci Ctr, Seattle, WA, United States