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  2. Discharge regime - Wikipedia

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    The primary factor affecting river regimes is the climate of its catchment area, both by the amount of rainfall and by the temperature fluctuations throughout the year. This has led Beckinsale to classify regimes based primarily on the climate. [23] Although there is correlation, climate is still not fully reflected in a river regime.

  3. River regime - Wikipedia

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    The river regime generally refers to the mathematical relationship between the river discharge and its width, depth and slope. Thus, "river regime" describes a series of characteristic power-law relationships between discharge and width, depth and slope [ 1 ]

  4. River morphology - Wikipedia

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    The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...

  5. River ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    The "flow regime" of a river or stream includes the general patterns of discharge over annual or decadal time scales, and may capture seasonal changes in flow. [7] [8] While water flow is strongly determined by slope, flowing waters can alter the general shape or direction of the stream bed, a characteristic also known as geomorphology. The ...

  6. Ecohydraulics - Wikipedia

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    Ecohydraulics is an interdisciplinary science studying the hydrodynamic factors that affect the survival and reproduction of aquatic organisms and the activities of aquatic organisms that affect hydraulics and water quality. Considerations include habitat maintenance or development, habitat-flow interactions, and organism responses.

  7. River - Wikipedia

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    As rivers flow downstream, they eventually merge to form larger rivers. A river that feeds into another is a tributary, and the place they meet is a confluence. [4] Rivers must flow to lower altitudes due to gravity. [3] The bed of a river is typically within a river valley between hills or mountains.

  8. Human impact on river systems - Wikipedia

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    Rivers are an essential component of the terrestrial realm and have been a preferable location for human settlements during history. River is the main expression used for river channels themselves, riparian zones, floodplains and terraces, adjoining uplands dissected by lower channels and river deltas. [3]

  9. River Continuum Concept - Wikipedia

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    In practice, the River Continuum Concept is used today mainly for environmental assessment of rivers. River studies that assess riverine biological communities and have determined the species composition of an area can then be compared with the ideal species composition from the River Continuum Concept. From there, any variations in species ...