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Figure 1. Number of peer reviewed journal articles per year using the combined terms ”riparian vegetation” + ”geomorphology” + ”river*”, as archived on Clarivate Web of Knowledge (all databases) (https://www-webofscience-com.inee.bib.cnrs.fr/). A.M. Gurnell’s first article using these terms was published in 1997 (see vertical black arrow) and her name comes out first with more than 12% of all articles authored or co-authored. Accessed on 11th November 2023.
Figure 2: Multi-scale theoretical model of the feedback between riparian vegetation dynamics and river morphodynamics.
Figure 3: Observed feedback at the individual level. (a) PopTrait ex situ experiment in Clermont-Ferrand for understandingP. nigra responses to biomechanical constraints; (b) sediment tail downstream of a multi-stemmed black poplar on an alluvial bar of the Tech River. The morphology of the sediment tail is correlated with morphological traits of the black poplar individual. Photographs: Virginia Garófano-Gómez (a) and Aurélien Chabanon (b).
Figure 4: Observed feedback at the population level. (a) Established dense pioneer black poplar cohort with a very high growth rate on a gravel bar of the Garonne River; (b) same cohort in winter, with well-distinguishable massive sediment trapping in the vegetation unit. Photographs: Dov Corenblit.
Figure 5: Observed feedback at the community level. (a) Herbaceous and arboreous communities in the active tract of the Tech River and (b) the Allier River. Photographs: Dov Corenblit (a) and Franck Vautier (b).
Figure 6: Observed feedback at the community mosaic level. (a) Community mosaic of the Allier River with a predominant physical signature and (b) the Isère River with a predominant biotic signature on the alternate bars in the active tract.