Indirect Environmental Effects of Dikes on Estuarine Tidal Channels: Thinking Outside of the Dike for Habitat Restoration and Monitoring
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...The compartments which are formed facilitate highly productive agriculture in deltas around the world, such as the Pearl (Seto et al. 2002), Nile (Nixon 2003), Mekong (Hung et al. 2014), Ebro (Ibáñez et al. 1997), and Skagit (Hood 2004)....
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...…on the bayside edges of levees where new marshes formed over sediments accreted during the 1850s. Levee networks, tide-control structures, and mosquito ditches not only fragmented wildlife habitat but also altered the hydrology and sediment dispersion patterns of outboard levee areas (Hood 2004)....
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...Diking of estuarine and tidal flows has been an extensive practice in downstream rivers used to effectively manage coastal areas (Hood, 2004), as it plays an important role in the supply of freshwater resources in agricultural areas, preventing floods, etc. (Wetzel, 2001)....
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...Tidal channel allometry follows from a more general fractal theory of landforms (RodriguezIturbe and Rinaldo 1997), and the scaling of perimeter with surface area is a common reflection of landform fractal geometry (Mandelbrot 1983; Sugihara and May 1990)....
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...Greater adjustment in width relative to depth with changing discharge is consistent with hydraulic geometry theory (Leopold et al. 1964)....
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...Because high sinuosity is associated with small channel width relative to depth (Leopold et al. 1964), the observed correlation between changes in sinuosity and in mean channel width suggests that distributary channel widths changed to a greater degree than channel depths....
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...As a final error check, meander bends in tidal channels were examined at scales ranging from 1:1,000 to 1:10,000 to determine whether erosion had occurred in the cut banks of the meanders and sediment deposition at the point bars, in accord with theoretical expectations (Leopold et al. 1964)....
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...Sinuosity was the ratio of sinuous length to straight length (Leopold et al. 1964)....
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