LW jams in a mountain stream of Tierra del Fuego: piece movement and hydro-morphological effects analysis

• Published in: Bosque (Valdivia)
• Main Authors: Mao, Luca, Burns, Sarah, Comiti, Francesco, Andreoli, Andrea, Urciuolo, Adriana, Gaviño-Novillo, Marcelo, Iturraspe, Rodolfo, Aristide Lenzi, Mario
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales. 2008
• Subjects: morfología de ríos; transporte de troncos; resistencia al flujo; retención de sedimentos; large woody debris; channel morphology; logs transport; flow resistance; sediment retention; Antarctic; Argentina; Esperanza; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://revistas.uach.cl/index.php/bosque/article/view/5798; https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-92002008000300003

This work reports on the geomorphic role of large wood pieces and jams in a third order mountain stream located in Southern Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), and draining an old-growth nothofagus forested basin not influenced by beaver damming activity. Even if the in-stream number of wood pieces (2,300...