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"Are We Meeting the Challenges
of Landscape-Scale Riverine Research?
A Review"
E. Ashley Steel et al.
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Abstract
1
Introduction
2
Drivers of large-scale riverine research
2.1
Policy drivers
2.2
Ecological drivers
2.3
Technological drivers
3
Conceptual history of landscape-scale riverine research
4
Challenges to landscape riverine research
4.1
Has new research utilized the strengths of new technologies or are we doing the same old stuff with more expensive data?
4.2
Have we incorporated key concepts from landscape ecology to improve our understanding of how landscapes affect rivers?
4.3
Have we been able to use landscape analyses to address management and policy needs?
5
Opportunities in landscape-scale riverine research
5.1
Moving toward mechanism
5.2
Spatio-temporal structure of human impacts
5.3
Statistical opportunities
5.4
Defining the right metrics
6
Conclusions
7
Acknowledgements
A
Appendix: Landscape perspectives of rivers
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Figure IV:
Tagliamento River, Italy. Photo taken by Susanne Muhar. The Tagliamento is one of the largest undammed rivers in western Europe and its braided and anastamosed channels are indicative of high bedload from the Alps.