Many of Australia's tropical rivers are amongst the most ecologically intact in the world, but have been relatively little studied. Now, however, there is pressure for further development of these tropical land and water resources. To avoid repeating management mistakes that have been made elsewhere, it is essential to improve our understanding of how these rivers function. As part of the Tropi...

Riparian areas along rivers are essential movement corridors for terrestrial animals. However, the potential role of the dry bed of intermittent rivers as a movement corridor has been largely ignored. In this study, we investigated the use of the dry riverbed, compared with riparian, upland, and unpaved road habitats, by terrestrial vertebrates (mammals, reptiles, and birds) along two intermitt...

Diatom composition of the rheoplankton (phytoplankton) in the Sajó-Hernád river system (Slovakia and Hungary) was studied. Forty two sample sites were designated on the watershed from source to mouth of the two rivers and their tributaries. Samples were taken in July 2012. Altogether, 258 diatom taxa were identifi ed. The microfl ora was dominated by tychoplanktonic elements. According to the r...

[1] In actively eroding landscapes, fluvial abrasion modifies the characteristics of the sediment carried by rivers and consequently has a direct impact on the ability of mountain rivers to erode their bedrock and on the characteristics and volume of the sediment exported from upland catchments. In this experimental study, we use a novel flume replicating hydrodynamic conditions prevailing in m...

Substantial variations in the particle flux are commonly observed in field measurements on gravel-bed rivers and in laboratory experiments mimicking river behavior on a smaller scale. These fluctuations can be explained by the natural variability of sediment supply and hydraulic conditions. We conducted laboratory experiments of particle transport down a two-dimensional inclined channel, for wh...

Sediment of different size are transported in rivers under the action of flow. The first and still most popular sediment continuity model able to deal with mixed sediment is the so-called active layer model proposed by Hirano (1971, 1972). In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional hydromorphodynamic model given by the Saint-Venant equations for free-surface flow coupled with the active lay...

Pulses of fine sediment in gravel-bedded rivers can cause extensive fine sediment infiltration (FSI) into void spaces in coarse bed material, potentially altering river morphodynamics and aquatic ecosystems. Previous work suggests a conceptual model of FSI whereby FSI occurs to a limited depth as a function of the relative grain size of bed sediment compared with infiltrating sediment and is in...