Acknowledgments
The authors first warmly thank Angela M. Gurnell for her invitation to contribute to this special issue and second are very grateful for the long and very rewarding collaboration which started 25 years ago at the University of Birmingham and largely contributed to determine our professional trajectories. We also thank all co-authors from our papers we have cited in this contribution for the successful achievement of the presented biogeomorphological investigations. The authors acknowledge the French National Research Agency (ANR) that supports the Project-ANR-21-CE32-000 “NUMRIP”.