Fluvial Systems and River Geomorphology

Dear Colleagues,

Fluvial drainage basins cover a significant portion of the Earth’s surface, and fluvial processes are crucial for shaping terrestrial landscapes. Fluvial systems play a major role in sediment connectivity from upland areas to oceans, affecting water resources, stream ecology, natural hazards and ecosystem services for mankind. As rivers convey water, eroded sediments, solutes and nutrients from the uplands and continents to the oceans, they exert fundamental control over the shape of the Earth’s surface. Accordingly, river systems are central to an understanding of the geomorphology of most terrestrial regions on the Earth.

In recent years, significant methodological and technological advances have provided the opportunity to study and quantify fluvial processes, fluvial landforms, and process–form interactions in great detail and high resolution across a wide range of different spatial and temporal scales.

This Special Issue seeks original research and review articles from interdisciplinary researchers working in field monitoring, experimental, remote sensing and various (numerical) modeling and dating approaches. It aims to further advance relevant methods and techniques and create new insights into fluvial sediment transport and morphodynamic functioning of fluvial systems, geomorphic processes during flood events and related hazard cascades, interactions between abiotic and biotic components within fluvial drainage basin systems, and short- to long-term evolution of fluvial landforms, rivers and drainage basin systems induced by different natural and anthropogenic drivers, as well as sustainable drainage basin management and river restoration.

Dr. Achim A. Beylich
Guest Editor

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