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Clark, Miles J., Bennett, Georgina L. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4812-8180, Ryan-Burkett, Sandra E., Sear, David A. and Franco, Aldina M. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6055-7378
(2022)
Untangling the controls on bedload transport in a wood‐loaded river with RFID tracers and linear mixed modelling.
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47 (9).
pp. 2283-2298.
ISSN 0197-9337
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Abstract
Bedload transport is a fundamental process by which coarse sediment is transferred through landscapes by river networks and may be well described stochastically by distributions of grain step length and rest time obtained through tracer studies. To date, none of these published tracer studies have specifically investigated the influence of large wood in the river channel on sediment transport dynamics, limiting the applicability of stochastic sediment transport models in these settings. Large wood is a major component of many forested rivers and is increasing due to anthropogenic ‘Natural Flood Management’ (NFM) practices. This study aims to investigate and model the influence of large wood on grain-scale bedload transport. We tagged 957 cobble to pebble sized particles (D 50 = 73 mm) and 28 pieces of large wood (> 1 m in length) with radio frequency identification (RFID) tracers in an alpine mountain stream. We monitored the transport distance of tracers annually over 3 years, building distributions of tracer transport distances with which to compare with published distributions from wood free settings. We also applied linear mixed modelling (LMM), to tease out the influence of wood from other controls on likelihood of entrainment, deposition, and the transport distances of sediments. Tracer sediments accumulated both upstream and downstream of large wood pieces, with LMM analysis confirming a reduction in the probability of entrainment of tracers closer to wood in all 3 years. Upon remobilization, tracers entrained from positions closer to large wood had shorter subsequent transport distances in each year. In 2019, large wood also had a trapping effect, significantly reducing the transport distances of tracer particles entrained from upstream, that is forcing premature deposition of tracers. This study demonstrates the role of large wood in influencing bedload transport in alpine stream environments, with implications for both natural and anthropogenic addition of wood debris in fluvial environments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This research has been funded by UKRI via the Natural Environment Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the NEXUSS DTP. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | rfid,bedload transport,large wood,linear mixed modelling,tracers,geography, planning and development,earth-surface processes,earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2022 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 23:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84632 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/esp.5376 |
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