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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.