Riparian forest vegetation is widely believed to protect riverbanks from erosion, but few studies have quantified the effect of riparian vegetation removal on rates of river channel migration. Measured historical changes in a river channel centreline, combined with mapped changes in floodplain vegetation, provide an opportunity to test how riparian vegetation cover affects the erodibility of ri...

Mean column velocity in the filling bank of the channelized Missouri River reached a maximum of 0.875 rnIs. In these locations nose velocity was 30% less. Increased volume discharge did not result in increased velocity in the filling bank locations studied. Surface velocity did not exceed 0.5 rnIs within the first 3 m from the cutting bank at two locations along the channelized Missouri River n...

drinking water contaminated by cholera feces. Mettupalaiyam is the south-west terminus of the Madras Railway. It comprises three villages,?Odandurai in the north, Kariyampalayam in the middle, and Chikkadasampalayam in the south. The river Bhavani, which runs through the town from west to east, separates Odandurai from Kariyampalayam. Thus Odandurai lies on the northern bank of the river Bhavan...

Sediment and phosphorus (P) transport from the Minnesota River Basin to Lake Pepin on the upper Mississippi River has garnered much attention in recent years. However, there is lack of data on the extent of sediment and P contributions from riverbanks vis-à-vis uplands and ravines. Using two light detection and ranging (lidar) data sets taken in 2005 and 2009, a study was undertaken to quantify...

We evaluate links between climate and simulated river bank erosion for one of the world's largest rivers, the Mekong. We employ a process-based model to reconstruct multidecadal time series of bank erosion at study sites within the Mekong's two main hydrological response zones, defining a new parameter, accumulated excess runoff (AER), pertinent to bank erosion. We employ a hydrological model t...

Phosphorus loss from bank erosion was studied in the catchment of River Odense, a lowland Danish river basin, with the aim of testing the hypothesis of whether stream banks act as major diffuse phosphorus (P) sources at catchment scale. Furthermore, the study aimed at analyzing the impact of different factors influencing bank erosion and P loss such as stream order, anthropogenic disturbances, ...

The 'tucunaré', Cichla piquiti, an exotic Amazonian fish has become established along the left bank of the Paraguay River in the Pantanal. It was introduced by escaping from culture ponds in the Upper Piquiri River and spread downstream, along the lateral flooded areas of that river, continuing through the clear waters of the left bank of the Paraguay River and reaching south as far as the Para...