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The impact of flood variables on riparian vegetation

The riparian vegetation of Alpine rivers often grows in temporally dynamic riverine environments which are characterized by pronounced meteorological and hydrological fluctuations and high resource competition. Within these relatively rough conditions, rip ...

2016

Stability analysis of ecomorphodynamic equations

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy

In order to shed light on the influence of riverbed vegetation on river morphodynamics, we perform a linear stability analysis on a minimal model of vegetation dynamics coupled with classical one- and two-dimensional Saint-Venant-Exner equations of morphod ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Multi-scale feedbacks between tree regeneration traits and herbivore behavior explain the structure of pasture-woodland mosaics

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

The pasture-woodlands of Central Europe are low-intensity grazing systems in which the structural richness of dynamic forest-grassland mosaics is causal for their high biodiversity. Distinct mosaic patterns in Picea abies- and Fagus sylvatica-dominated pas ...

Springer Verlag2016

A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification

François Gillet

Aims: Classification of vegetation is an essential tool to describe, understand, predict and manage biodiversity. Given the multiplicity of approaches to classify vegetation, it is important to develop international consensus around a set of general guidel ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Ecomorphodynamic approaches to river anabranching patterns

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy

We investigate the influence of vegetation on river morphological instabilities using an analytical framework. We first discuss the important role of the hydrological (flooding frequency) and biological (vegetation development rate) timescales. As long as ...

Elsevier2015

The integration of vegetation in the built environment: strategies and technical alternatives for the optimization of the building envelope

Luisa Pastore

The presentation provided an overview on the main environmental benefits derived from an adequate integration of vegetation in the built environment, especially in terms of microclimate mitigation and indoor thermal comfort. In particular, the main technol ...

2015

Snowmelt as a driver of ecosystem response in water limited mountain forests of the Western U.S.

Ernesto Trujillo Gomez

Recent large-scale changes in snow cover over Western North America associated with climate warming may have widespread impacts on water availability. These changes have potentially varied impacts on water availability as snowmelt influences, soil moisture ...

2015

Modeling of Hydrological Processes in Arid Agricultural Regions

David Andrew Barry

Understanding of hydrological processes, including consideration of interactions between vegetation growth and water transfer in the root zone, underpins efficient use of water resources in arid-zone agriculture. Water transfers take place in the soil-plan ...

2015

Heuristic-driven Graph Wavelet Modeling of Complex Terrain

Alexandre Buttler, François Golay, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer, Ioana Stoicescu

We present a novel method for building a multiresolution representation of large digital surface models. The surface points coincide with the nodes of a planar graph which can be processed using a critically sampled, invertible lifting scheme. To drive the ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Reconstructing climate change and ombrotrophic bog development during the last 4000 years in northern Poland using biotic proxies, stable isotopes and trait-based approach

Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Mariusz Lamentowicz

In this study, we present a record spanning the last 4000 years from a Baltic bog (Kusowskie Bagno) in northern Poland. Using numerous biotic and abiotic proxies, such as testate amoebae (depth to water table reconstructions), stable carbon isotopes (C-13) ...

Elsevier2015

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