Assessing the planform changes of the Tammaro River (southern Italy) from 1870 to 1955 using a GIS-aided historical map analysis

Magliulo, Paolo; Bozzi, Federica; Pignone, M.

doi:10.1007/s12665-016-5266-5

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“…In most cases, it is not straightforward to establish a clear link between each individual factor and the observed channel condition and its evolution (Dufour et al, 2015), and the role of land use changes at the catchment and reach scales has been addressed only qualitatively in most Italian case studies (see the column 'Effects of Land use changes at catchment and/or reach scale", Table 1). The effects of afforestation at a catchment scale were quantified in a few papers (see Table 1: Comiti et al, 2011;Preciso et al, 2012;Ziliani and Surian, 2012;Bollati et al, 2014;Magliulo and Pignone, 2016;Scorpio et al, 2015;Scorpio and Rosskopf, 2016;Fortugno et al, 2017;Marchese et al, 2017), although only six out of 40 considered studies compared land use changes occurring in the corridor area with channel adjustments (Aucelli et al, 2011;Comiti et al, 2011;Dufour et al, 2015;Surian et al, 2015: Picco et al, 2017Mandarino et al, 2019).…”

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Is afforestation a driver of change in italian rivers within the Anthropocene era?

Scorpio

Piégay

2021

CATENA

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Highlights• A multi-scale diachronous-synchronous approach is used • Land-use changes at both reach and basin scales drove adjustment in Italian river • Southern rivers do not undergo floodplain afforestation, although they narrowed • Similarities and differences between Italian and French river evolutions are found • Geomorphic diagnosis must consider land-use change effects on river adjustments

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Is afforestation a driver of change in italian rivers within the Anthropocene era?

Scorpio

Piégay

2021

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“…Liébault and Piégay, 2002), planform (e.g. Abate et al, 2015;Clerici et al, 2015;David et al, 2016;Magliulo et al, 2016), channel and floodplain geomorphic features (e.g. Adami et al, 2016) and vegetation cover (e.g.…”

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Biomorphodynamics of alternate bars in a channelized, regulated river: An integrated historical and modelling analysis

Serlet

Gurnell

Zolezzi

et al. 2018

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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The development of alternate bars in channelized rivers can be explained theoretically as an instability of the riverbed when the active channel width to depth ratio exceeds a threshold. However, the development of a vegetation cover on the alternate bars of some channelized rivers and its interactions with bar morphology have not been investigated in detail. Our study focused on the co‐evolution of alternate bars and vegetation along a 33 km reach of the Isère River, France. We analysed historical information to investigate the development of alternate bars and their colonization by vegetation within a straightened, embanked river subject to flow regulation, sediment mining, and vegetation management. Over an 80 year period, bar density decreased, bar length increased, and bar mobility slowed. Vegetation encroachment across bar surfaces accompanied these temporal changes and, once established, vegetation cover persisted, shifting the overall system from an unvegetated to a vegetated dynamic equilibrium state. The unvegetated morphodynamics of the impressively regular sequence of alternate bars that developed in the Isère following channelization is consistent with previous theoretical morphodynamic work. However, the apparent triggering dynamics of vegetation colonization needs to be investigated, based on complex biophysical instability processes. If instability related to vegetation colonization is confirmed, further work needs to focus on the relevance of initial conditions for this instability, and on related feedback effects such as how the morphodynamics of bare‐sediment alternate bars may have affected vegetation development and, in turn, how vegetation has created a new dynamic equilibrium state. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Findings from this study indicate broad convergence of the channel adjustments in the Basento River with those in other Italian rivers [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] over the last 150 years. Nevertheless, there are some significant differences.…”

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“…To date, numerous studies have evaluated the morphological variations in river in central and northern Italy [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], while much fewer studies have focused on southern Italy [52][53][54][55][56][57]. This difference is perhaps related to the reduced interest and importance of rivers in southern Italy in terms of the size, length, and water discharge, and above all, the frequency of flood events and intensity of the effects, even though there have been several cases of great impacts.…”

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Channel Changes and Controlling Factors over the Past 150 Years in the Basento River (Southern Italy)

Musso

Capolongo

Caldara

et al. 2020

Water

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Channel changes are receiving growing interest in relation to the relevant implications for river management and restoration. In this kind of analysis, purely qualitative approaches have been gradually replaced by quantitative approaches aimed at reconstructing the temporal variations in parameters (e.g., channel width and depth) to investigate not only the evolutionary trend of the river but also the possible cause-effect connections. This paper investigates the channel dynamics in the Basento River (Basilicata Region, Italy) over the past 150 years, when the river was heavily affected by human activities (e.g., hydraulic interventions and gravel mining) and climate changes. Channel adjustments were analysed with historical maps, aerial photos, and geomorphological surveys. The results show that the channel underwent a strong narrowing during the twentieth century, similar to many rivers in Italy, with the most intense phase from the 1950s to the 1990s (with the width varying from −30% to −80%). The morphology pattern remained almost completely unchanged, apart from a few reaches located in the hilly area that were affected by intense modifications before the 1940s. The causes of channel adjustments were identified as human disturbances (land use variations, channel interventions at the reach scale, sediment mining) from the end of the 1800s to present, as well as natural factors (changes in frequency, duration, and intensity of flood events), whose effects have intensified since the late 1990s.

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Assessing the planform changes of the Tammaro River (southern Italy) from 1870 to 1955 using a GIS-aided historical map analysis

Cited by 33 publications

References 69 publications

Is afforestation a driver of change in italian rivers within the Anthropocene era?

Is afforestation a driver of change in italian rivers within the Anthropocene era?

Biomorphodynamics of alternate bars in a channelized, regulated river: An integrated historical and modelling analysis

Channel Changes and Controlling Factors over the Past 150 Years in the Basento River (Southern Italy)

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