Wouter Vandenbruwaene

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale flow facility of 16 × 26 m was used to simulate the growth of two vegetation patches by increasing the patch diameter and decreasing the interpatch distance.

TL;DR: Hydrodynamic results demonstrate that plant species traits interact with environmental conditions in creating scale-dependent feedbacks explaining why the effects of vegetation on landscape formation in saltmarshes are species specific.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the existence of spatial self-organisation of freshwater macrophyte patches in a typical lowland river (Belgium), showing that the underlying mechanisms for pattern formation are scale-dependent feedbacks between plant growth, water flow and local river bed erosion and sedimentation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the long-term change in elevation (ΔE) within a restored CRT marsh and adjacent natural tidal marsh and found that the observed spatio-temporal variations in ΔE rate were related to variations in inundation depth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spontaneous formation and evolution of a tidal channel network in a newly constructed tidal marsh (Scheldt estuary, Belgium) over a period of 4 years, by high-accuracy topographic surveying with a temporal resolution of 1 year at high spatial resolution considering all channels deeper than 0.1 m.