Stream Restoration

Publications

2008

• Developing Strategies for Urban Channel Erosion Quantification in Upland Coastal Zone Streams. VT-BSE Document No. 2008-0005. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, Virginia.

2007

• Changes in streambank erodibility and critical shear stress due to subaerial processes along a headwater stream, southwestern Virginia, USA. Geomorphology (in press).

• Methods for determining streambank critical shear stress and soil erodibility: Implications for erosion rate predictions. Transactions of the ASABE. 50(1): 95-106.

• Predicting root density in streambanks. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (in press).

• The Influence of Riparian Vegetation on Near-Bank Turbulence: A Flume Experiment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. (in press).

2006

• Differences in the Reproductive Ecology of Belted Kingfishers (Ceryle alcyon) Across Streams with Varying Geomorphology and Habitat Quality.  Waterbirds. 29(3): 258-270.

• Effects of riparian vegetation on stream bank subaerial processes in southwestern Virginia, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 31(4):399-413.

• Modeling Channel Erosion at the Watershed Scale: Model Review and Case Study.  Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies. BSE Document Number 2006-0009.

• The effects of vegetation and soil type on streambank erosion, southwestern Virginia, USA. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 42(1): 69-82.

• Watershed imperviousness impacts on channel morphology: a multivariate statistical analysis, Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 42: 941-956.

2005

• The influence of riparian vegetation on stream width, eastern Pennsylvania, USA. GSA Bulletin. 117: 229-243.

2004

• Riparian deforestation and stream channel narrowing: Loss of stream ecosystem and its services. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(39):14132-14137.

• Understanding stream geomorphic state in relation to ecological integrity: Evidence using habitat assessments and macroinvertebrates. Environmental Management. 34(5):669-683.

• Variation in root density along stream banks. Journal of Environmental Quality. 33: 2030-2039.

• Width of streams and rivers in response to vegetation, bank material, and other factors. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 40(5): 1159-1172.

2003

• Influence of bank vegetation on channel morphology in rural and urban watersheds. Geology. 31(1): 147-150.