Changes in sediment flux and storage within a fluvial system: some examples from the Rhine catchment

摘要: The Rhine river system can look back on a long history of human impact. Whereas significant anthropogenic changes to the channel started only 200 years ago, impacts land use have been felt for more than 7500 years. Here, we review results from several case studies and show how land-use change climate transformed fluvial system. We focus in sediment delivery pathways slope–channel coupling, that these vary time depend magnitude rainfall event. These must be accounted when trying sediments as archives climatic systems. For example, impact is recorded slope deposits intensity runoff generation do not exceed threshold gullying. Similarly, are alluvium both landscape rendered sensitive by activities (e.g. deforestation) thresholds gullying exceeded. Copyright  2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.