A GEOMORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INSTREAM FLOW ENVIRONMENTS
A GEOMORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INSTREAM FLOW ENVIRONMENTS
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河流环境识别和分类的地貌方法
DOI:
10.1080/10183469.1994.9631349
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1994
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通讯作者:
R. Wadeson
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作者:
R. Wadeson
Summary This paper highlights the considerable confusion that exists within the ecological literature concerning the classification of the lotic (flowing water) environments. A large number of ill defined terms has been introduced by various authors; these often relate to better defined geomorphological features, but are used more loosely by ecologists. This paper highlights the lack of consistency that exists and a number of recommendations are made in an attempt to alleviate the general confusion. Before attempting to provide an objective technique for a more rigorous classification, the relationships between the abiotic environment in which a community of species exists (biotope) and the channel form features recognised by fluvial geomorphologists (morphological unit) are examined. A link between the two is made through the description of the hydraulics of river flow. The Froude and Reynolds numbers are two dimensionless values frequently referred to by hydraulic engineers, and are used in this paper t...