DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-3013-2016
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84980021922
论文题名: Vegetative impacts upon bedload transport capacity and channel stability for differing alluvial planforms in the Yellow River source zone
作者: Li Z ; W ; , Yu G ; A ; , Brierley G ; , Wang Z ; Y
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2016
卷: 20, 期: 7 起始页码: 3013
结束页码: 3025
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Transportation
; Vegetation
; Bed-load transport
; Channel morphodynamics
; Channel stability
; Influence of vegetations
; Nonlinear relations
; Qinghai Tibet plateau
; Riparian vegetation
; Upper yellow rivers
; Rivers
; bedload
; flood
; grass
; herb
; morphodynamics
; regional geology
; riparian vegetation
; sediment transport
; shrub
; tributary
; vegetation cover
; China
; Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
; Yellow River
英文摘要: The influence of vegetation upon bedload transport and channel morphodynamics is examined along a channel stability gradient ranging from meandering to anabranching to anabranching-braided to fully braided planform conditions along trunk and tributary reaches of the Upper Yellow River in western China. Although the regional geology and climate are relatively consistent across the study area, there is a distinct gradient in the presence and abundance of riparian vegetation for these reaches atop the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (elevations in the study area range from 2800 to 3400 m a.s.l.). To date, the influence of vegetative impacts upon channel planform and bedload transport capacity of alluvial reaches of the Upper Yellow River remains unclear because of a lack of hydrological and field data. In this region, the types and pattern of riparian vegetation vary with planform type as follows: trees exert the strongest influence in the anabranching reach, the meandering reach flows through meadow vegetation, the anabranching-braided reach has a grass, herb, and sparse shrub cover, and the braided reach has no riparian vegetation. A non-linear relation between vegetative cover on the valley floor and bedload transport capacity is evident, wherein bedload transport capacity is the highest for the anabranching reach, roughly followed by the anabranching-braided, braided, and meandering reaches. The relationship between the bedload transport capacity of a reach and sediment supply from upstream exerts a significant influence upon channel stability. Bedload transport capacity during the flood season (June-September) in the braided reach is much less than the rate of sediment supply, inducing bed aggradation and dynamic channel adjustments. Rates of channel adjustment are less pronounced for the anabranching-braided and anabranching reaches, while the meandering reach is relatively stable (i.e., this is a passive meandering reach). © Author(s) 2016. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/78778
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作者单位: School of Hydraulic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Water Sediment Sciences and Water Disaster Prevention of Hunan Province, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Recommended Citation:
Li Z,W,, Yu G,et al. Vegetative impacts upon bedload transport capacity and channel stability for differing alluvial planforms in the Yellow River source zone[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2016-01-01,20(7)