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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,336 Views
16 Pages

Quantifying the Impact of Changes in Sinuosity on River Ecosystems

  • Zicheng Yu,
  • Yicheng Fu,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Zhe Liu and
  • Yixuan Liu

29 July 2023

To quantitatively study the hydrodynamic changes in different river morphologies and clarify the impact of morphological changes on river ecosystems, this study examined a section of the Nansha River near Laoniuwan in the Haidian District, Beijing, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Environmental Factors on Aquatic Ecosystem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,007 Views
12 Pages

Model Test of the Effect of River Sinuosity on Nitrogen Purification Efficiency

  • Chenguang Xiao,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Xianjiang Yuan,
  • Ruidong Chen and
  • Xia Song

11 June 2020

River pollution is a significant problem within the urbanization process in China. Nitrogen is one of the most important pollutants in rivers, and the nitrogen purification capacity of rivers can be affected by their sinuous morphology. In this study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluvial Geomorphology and River Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,350 Views
15 Pages

4 September 2021

Linking sinuosity, a fairly recently developed metric, with high temperature extremes (HTEs) can be both useful and insightful to better understand the physical mechanisms behind HTEs. However, it is not clear whether there exists a relationship betw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Variability and Climate Extreme Events over Asia on Various Time-Scales since the Last Glacial Maximum)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,465 Views
56 Pages

27 August 2021

A holistic-modular approach has been taken to study the evolution of three straight to low-sinuosity drainage systems (=SSS) in an uplifted basement block of the Central European Variscides. The development of the SSS is described by means of a quadr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Minerals: Frontiers of Mineral Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,281 Views
13 Pages

28 June 2019

Stem sinuosity is a deformation that occurs in Douglas-fir and other tree species. Nutritional deficiencies, such as those of copper, zinc, boron, and calcium have been positively associated with increased stem form deformities. The objective of this...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,529 Views
9 Pages

15 November 2022

The shifting pattern of the Ganges-Padma River in Bangladesh is examined using satellite images. The meandering Ganges-Padma River has recently transformed into a braided river. Satellite imageries from 1973–2016 are used to compute the sinuosi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies in Geo-Hazards Analysis, Hydrogeology and River Restoration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,878 Views
15 Pages

Research on the Influence of River Morphological Changes on Water Self-Purification Capacity: A Case Study of the Shiwuli River in Chaohu Basin

  • Chenguang Xiao,
  • Zengyuan Chai,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Zhaohui Luo and ,
  • Yuke Li,
  • Qijun Ou and
  • Yuchuan Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2025

River pollution is a major issue in China’s urbanization process. Understanding the effects of river morphology and constructed wetlands on the self-purification capacity is crucial for water quality improvement. This study takes the Shiwuli Ri...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,597 Views
35 Pages

14 June 2023

In Colombia, most of the energy is produced by using water resources. However, the morphological impact of damming has not been thoroughly studied yet. Therefore, upstream and downstream changes in the channel width and sinuosity along the river due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sediment Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
288 Views
17 Pages

25 June 2026

River morphological changes significantly influence water purification functions; however, systematic research on the evolution of natural river morphology and its underlying mechanisms remains insufficient. This study investigates the Shiwuli River,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,976 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2021

Okavango delta is a typical distributive fluvial system, which is composed of a series of sand island-river-swamp networks. River migration in the Okavango delta is analyzed by using satellite images from Google Earth and Alaska Satellite Facility (A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sediment Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,305 Views
19 Pages

11 March 2025

The Pacific Subtropical High (PSH) predominantly develops during the boreal summer (June–August) over the Northwest Pacific (NWP) basin, with August accounting for the highest tropical storm (TS) frequency (46.9%). This study examines the criti...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,182 Views
17 Pages

Response of Fish Habitat Quality to Weir Distribution Change in Mountainous River Based on the Two-Dimensional Habitat Suitability Model

  • Yue Wang,
  • Jihong Xia,
  • Wangwei Cai,
  • Zewen Liu and ,
  • Jingjiang Li,
  • Jingyun Yin,
  • Jiayi Zu and
  • Chuanbin Dou
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 May 2023

Weirs are often constructed on mountainous rivers because of their low construction costs and their ability to provide irrigation and facilitate landscaping, yet there is little research on how fish habitat quality in mountainous rivers responds to w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,383 Views
16 Pages

Automatic Assessment of Individual Stem Shape Parameters in Forest Stands from TLS Point Clouds: Application in Pinus pinaster

  • Covadonga Prendes,
  • Elena Canga,
  • Celestino Ordoñez,
  • Juan Majada and ,
  • Mauricio Acuna and
  • Carlos Cabo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 March 2022

Tree morphological characteristics, particularly straightness and lean, significantly influence the value of the commercial products that can be obtained. Despite this, they are not usually evaluated in timber field inventories because traditional te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Scanning of Forest Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,828 Views
21 Pages

This study explores the design characteristics of approach spaces in architect Yoshiji Takehara’s independent residential works, focusing on their spatial arrangement, sinuosity, and experiential qualities. Through the analysis of Takehara&rsqu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Space Design: Occupant Comfort, Wellbeing, and Post-occupancy Evaluation of Multi-Scale Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,374 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2016

Modern river ecosystems undergo constant stress from disturbances such as bank stabilization, channelization, dams, and municipal, agricultural, and industrial water use. As these anthropogenic water requirements persist, more efficient methods of ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Modeling of River Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,665 Views
18 Pages

18 March 2016

Many rivers are intensely managed due to anthropogenic influences such as dams, channelization, and water provision for municipalities, agriculture, and industry. With this growing pressure on fluvial systems comes a greater need to evaluate the stat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Modeling of River Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,390 Views
13 Pages

Sinuosity-Driven Water Pressure Distribution on Slope of Slightly-Curved Riparian Zone: Analytical Solution Based on Small-disturbance Theory and Comparison to Experiments

  • Jihong Xia,
  • Genting Yu,
  • Junqiang Lin,
  • Weijie Cao and ,
  • Zihan Yi,
  • Lihuai Lin and
  • Laounia Nehal
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2016

A curved riparian zone can create highly complex flow patterns that have a great effect on erosion, pollutant transport, surface water-groundwater exchange and habitat qualities. The small-disturbance theory has been applied to derive the analytical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Riverflow Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,716 Views
14 Pages

Short-Range Movement Pattern of Amphidromous Lagoon Fish Schools: Ecological Applications

  • Patrice Brehmer,
  • Marc Soria,
  • Viviane David,
  • Pablo Ivan Caballero Pinzon and ,
  • Pascal Bach,
  • Ndague Diogoul and
  • Jean Guillard
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 May 2022

High-resolution multibeam sonar allows estimating movements of pelagic fish schools at short range. Taking advantage of this methodology, we calculated a Straightness Index (SI) to quantify the proportion of schools migrating actively from those resi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydroacoustics in Marine, Transitional and Freshwaters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,242 Views
22 Pages

Construction of a Real-Time Ship Trajectory Prediction Model Based on Ship Automatic Identification System Data

  • Daping Xi,
  • Yuhao Feng,
  • Wenping Jiang,
  • Nai Yang and ,
  • Xini Hu and
  • Chuyuan Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The extraction of ship behavior patterns from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data and the subsequent prediction of travel routes play crucial roles in mitigating the risk of ship accidents. This study focuses on the Wuhan section of the dendri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,679 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2024

(1) This paper selects the modern delta formed by the Ganjiang tributary in Poyang Lake. By performing high density statistical analysis of distribution channel parameters in the area using satellite images and geographic information processing softw...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Hydrogeological Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,711 Views
22 Pages

Morphological Characteristics of Constrained Meandering Rivers in the Loess Plateau

  • Bin Li,
  • Yanjie Liang,
  • Xiaolian Yan,
  • Shuqing Yang and ,
  • Xin Li and
  • Jun Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 October 2024

In the Loess Plateau of China, loess is widely distributed and forms a unique geomorphic feature of the world. Meanwhile, the Yellow River water and sediment regulation system is under construction. Nonetheless, the morphological characteristics of c...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,252 Views
22 Pages

A long-standing problem in the understanding of deep-water turbidite reservoirs relates to how the three-dimensional evolution of deep-water channel systems evolve in response to channel filling on spatiotemporal scales, and how depositional environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,759 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2022

The Gulf of Suez area represents one of the most famous tectonic structures in the Red Sea, with a long history of low-, moderate-, and high-intensity earthquakes. This paper provides geomorphic analytics of the fault-initiated mountain front sinuosi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Visualization: Evaluation and Monitoring of Geohazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,161 Views
14 Pages

3 June 2022

The evolution of meandering rivers continues to attract considerable attention in research and for practical applications, given that it is closely associated with the safety of river systems and riparian zones. There has been much discussion regardi...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
26 Pages

8 September 2026

Fluvial sand bodies represent one of the most significant reservoir types in hydrocarbon exploration. Restricted by climatic conditions, sedimentary environments and the properties of provenance parent rocks, sedimentary characteristics and sand-body...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,423 Views
21 Pages

Turbidite channels are final conduits for the transfer of terrigenous detritus to the deep-sea depositional systems. Studying their morphology and geometric parameters can provide information on density flow characteristics and sedimentary processes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,574 Views
20 Pages

A maritime route is used by sea transportation vessels to access the trading ports, and route design standards for the safety of maritime traffic have been established in various countries and organizations. However, no quantitative safety verificati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maritime Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,372 Views
26 Pages

19 May 2023

This study investigates the contribution of river morphology towards the occurrence of manganese (Mn) in both sediment and surface water (SW), considering the temporal climatic and spatial conditions. The Boac and Mogpog rivers on the island province...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Generation, Migration and Transformation, Impact Assessment, Prevention and Control Measures of Heavy Metals to Environmental Pollution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,113 Views
19 Pages

On the Simulation of Floods in a Narrow Bending Valley: The Malpasset Dam Break Case Study

  • Chiara Biscarini,
  • Silvia Di Francesco,
  • Elena Ridolfi and
  • Piergiorgio Manciola

19 November 2016

In this paper, we investigate the performance of three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic modeling when dealing with river sinuosity and meander bends. In river bends, the flow is dominated by a secondary current, which has a key role on the flow redistribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,411 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2020

River meanders form complex 3D flow patterns, including secondary flows and flow separation. In particular, the flow separation traps solutes and delays their transport via storage effects associated with recirculating flows. The simulation of the se...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,968 Views
76 Pages

13 December 2020

Three-dimensional hydraulics were simulated through a wide range of synthetically generated meandering river channels to determine how channel curvature and width would correlate with the maximum boundary shear stress. Multidimensional models were ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Dimensional Modeling of Flow and Sediment Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,219 Views
30 Pages

As for sport climbing, also for outdoor activities such as rafting and canyoning, a strong connection with geofeatures on a long and short time scale exists. For investigating this, three river segments were selected in the Sesia hydrographic basin (...

(This article belongs to the Section Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,286 Views
21 Pages

Modeling Flow Pattern and Evolution of Meandering Channels with a Nonlinear Model

  • Leilei Gu,
  • Shiyan Zhang,
  • Li He,
  • Dong Chen and ,
  • Koen Blanckaert,
  • Willem Ottevanger and
  • Yun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2016

Meander dynamics has been the focus of river engineering for decades; however, it remains a challenge for researchers to precisely replicate natural evolution processes of meandering channels with numerical models due to the high nonlinearity of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,012 Views
13 Pages

30 August 2022

The flux of water through the hyporheic zone (HZ) is controlled by stream bedforms, sinuosity, surface water velocity, local water table, seasonality, and hydraulic conductivity (K) of the bed material. Dependent on both the kinematic viscosity and d...

(This article belongs to the Section Surface Waters and Groundwaters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,951 Views
16 Pages

Evolution of Surface Drainage Network for Spoil Heaps under Simulated Rainfall

  • Dongkai Chen,
  • Jiaorong Lv,
  • Han Luo and
  • Yongsheng Xie

6 December 2021

Spoil heaps laid from the infrastructure building sites or the mining sites are confoundedly prone to accelerated soil erosion and inducing debris flows on extreme rainfall occasion, thus threatening water quality and personal safety. In present stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,931 Views
20 Pages

Pearl Mussel Population Dynamics in Estonia: A Study on the Interplay of Geology, Geomorphology, and Watershed Land Use

  • Katrin Kaldma,
  • Marko Kohv,
  • Tiit Hang,
  • Joosep Aia and ,
  • Argo Jõeleht,
  • Raul Paat and
  • Martin Kesler
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 January 2025

Freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) are vital bioindicators in river ecosystems, with their population health reflecting broader environmental conditions. Mussel population declines are well documented across Europe, and in Estonia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Population Ecology and Protection of Freshwater Mussels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
739 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2026

Despite advances in high-resolution topographic survey technologies, abstracting static 3D data into physically meaningful indicators remains critical for river management. This study introduces a geometric moment technique to reflect river curvature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,335 Views
19 Pages

Spatiotemporal Characterization and Analysis of River Morphology Using Long-Term Landsat Imagery and Stream Power

  • Atefe Arfa-Fathollahkhani,
  • Seyed Ali Ayyoubzadeh,
  • Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam and
  • Hojjat Mianabadi

13 November 2022

Meandering rivers are among the most dynamic Earth-surface systems, which generally appear in fertile valleys, the most valuable lands for agriculture and human settlement. Landsat time series and morphological parameters are complementary tools for...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,467 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2022

Stream channelization, which entails reducing the sinuosity of a stream, widening, and in some cases deepening the stream channel, is a widespread practice in agricultural regions. Channelization efforts in central Illinois have significant impacts o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,229 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2023

Neck cutoff is a sudden phenomenon that occurs during the evolution of meandering rivers, but its process and mechanism remain unclear. In this investigation, the neck-narrowing process before cutoff, the formation of a new river, and the appropriate...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,624 Views
28 Pages

Dynamic Evapotranspiration Alters Hyporheic Flow and Residence Times in the Intrameander Zone

  • James Kruegler,
  • Jesus Gomez-Velez,
  • Laura K. Lautz and
  • Theodore A. Endreny

5 February 2020

Hyporheic zones (HZs) influence biogeochemistry at the local reach scale with potential implication for water quality at the large catchment scale. The characteristics of the HZs (e.g., area, flux rates, and residence times) change in response to cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Systems Approach for River and River Basin Restoration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
19 Pages

14 July 2026

This study presents an integrated, data-driven framework for satellite-derived bathymetry and morphodynamic assessment in large, regulated rivers, providing a spatial database to support reach-scale hydromorphological monitoring and river management....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coupled Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Surface Water Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,379 Views
25 Pages

Unpiloted Aerial System (UAS)-Supported Biogeomorphic Analysis of Restored Sierra Nevada Montane Meadows

  • Jerry Davis,
  • Leonhard Blesius,
  • Michelle Slocombe,
  • Suzanne Maher and ,
  • Michael Vasey,
  • Peter Christian and
  • Philip Lynch
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2020

The benefits of meadow restoration can be assessed by understanding the connections among geomorphology, hydrology, and vegetation; and multispectral imagery captured from unpiloted aerial systems (UASs) can provide the best method in terms of cost,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Geomorphological Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,134 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Simulation of 3D Flow Structure and Turbulence Characteristics near Permeable Spur Dike in Channels with Varying Sinuosities

  • Peng Xie,
  • Chunguang Li,
  • Suiju Lv,
  • Fengzhu Zhang and ,
  • Hefang Jing,
  • Xiaogang Li and
  • Dandan Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2023

Owing to the different degrees of bending in rivers in nature, it is difficult to conduct experiments in situ. In this study, the renormalization group (RNG) k-ε turbulence model in ANSYS Fluent was used to analyze the three-dimensional flow...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,228 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Method for Extracting and Analyzing the Geometry Properties of the Shortest Pedestrian Paths Focusing on Open Geospatial Data

  • Reza Hosseini,
  • Daoqin Tong,
  • Samsung Lim,
  • Qian Chayn Sun and ,
  • Gunho Sohn,
  • Gyözö Gidófalvi,
  • Abbas Alimohammadi and
  • Seyedehsan Seyedabrishami
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Unlike car navigation, where almost all vehicles can traverse every route, one route might not be optimal or even suitable for all pedestrians. Route geometry information, including tortuosity, twists and turns along roads, junctions, and road slopes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Geospatial Analytics Based on Crowdsourced Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,500 Views
12 Pages

Correlations between Environmental Factors and the Distribution of Juvenile Hucho bleekeri in the Taibai River, Shaanxi, China

  • Jinming Wu,
  • Jinping Wu,
  • Huan Ye,
  • Wei Xiong and ,
  • Wanmin Qu,
  • Xiaoqian Leng and
  • Hao Du
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2023

Sichuan taimen (Hucho bleekeri) is a national highly protected wild animal that faces significant impacts from habitat degradation and loss. To study the habitat selection by H. bleekeri, data on the Taibai River and the distribution of juvenile H. b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Endangered Aquatic Animals Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,453 Views
12 Pages

The usage of OpenStreetMap (OSM), one of the resources offered by Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), has rapidly increased since it was first established in 2004. In line with this increased usage, a number of studies have been conducted to an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Data Science for Urban Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,436 Views
14 Pages

Behavioral Disruption in Brachionus plicatilis Exposed to Bisphenol A: A Locomotion-Based Assessment

  • Quang-Anh Tran,
  • Nhat-Truong Phan,
  • Quynh-Anh Tran-Nguyen,
  • Hong Thi Mai and ,
  • Thao Linh Thi Phan and
  • Mau Trinh-Dang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 August 2025

This study investigates the effects of Bisphenol A (BPA)—a ubiquitous endocrine disruptor—on the swimming behavior of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. Across a 0–40 ppm gradient, a biphasic response was observed, with swimming spe...

(This article belongs to the Section Emerging Contaminants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,799 Views
18 Pages

Urban Growth and River Course Dynamics: Disconnected Floodplain and Urban Flood Risk in Manohara Watershed, Nepal

  • Shobha Shrestha,
  • Prem Sagar Chapagain,
  • Kedar Dahal,
  • Nirisha Adhikari and ,
  • Prajjwal Shrestha and
  • Laxmi Manandhar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 August 2025

Human activities and river course change have a complex reciprocal interaction. The river channel is altered by human activity, and these alterations have an impact on the activities and settlements along the riverbank. Understanding the relationship...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban Water Management: The Role of Nature-Based Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,470 Views
25 Pages

A Systematic, Automated Approach for River Segmentation Tested on the Magdalena River (Colombia) and the Baker River (Chile)

  • Andrea Nardini,
  • Santiago Yépez,
  • Bruno Mazzorana,
  • Héctor Ulloa and ,
  • María Dolores Bejarano and
  • Alain Laraque
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2020

This paper proposes a systematic procedure to identify river reaches from a geomorphic point of view. Their identification traditionally relies on a subjective synthesis of multi-dimensional information (e.g., changes of slope, changes of width of va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue River Basin Management and River Evolution Research)

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