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How will climate change affect channel morphology and salmonid habitat in mountain basins?

Explore some of the hypotheses about how climate change will affect stream channel morphology, and scour regimes.

Presenter

John Buffington
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

Contributors

Producer - Michael Furniss
Videography - Freshwaters Illustrated
Technical production - Jeffrey Guntle

Video Length

19:20

Publication Date

You should gain an understanding of:

What is 'reach scale morphology', and how climate change might affect this.

Hypotheses about climate driven changes in scour regimes.

How these might affect salmonid species in mountain ecosystems.