Indirect Environmental Effects of Dikes on Estuarine Tidal Channels: Thinking Outside of the Dike for Habitat Restoration and Monitoring
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...Drainage of salt marshes has resulted in significant habitat loss on North American coasts (Hood 2004), but our knowledge of how these intertidal habitats respond to human disturbances is sparse for many regions (McIvor and Odum 1988)....
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...Dikes are conventionally built as hard engineering structures that withstand the forces of wind, waves and flooding, whereby constituting an interference with nature [9,10]....
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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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