Fluvial levees in compound channels: a review on formation processes and the impact of bedforms and vegetation

Abstract Natural levees are wedge-shaped morphological features developing along the boundaries of mass flows. When they form in fluvial landscapes, can have multiple implications for river management trained inland rivers. This paper summarizes present knowledge regard to formation and evolution so-called sections provides novel hypotheses significance bedforms vegetation strips floodplain on levee formation, evolution, characteristics. The that (i) contribute by altering interface hydraulics between main channel enhancing entrainment sediment into suspension (ii) stripes additionally affect resulting a changed geometry supported combining existing bedform dynamics flow-vegetation-sediment interaction with results reported recent flume studies.