Preface
by Valentin Golosov, Vladimir Belyaev & Des E. Walling

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Sediment Redistribution Within Small Catchments in Different Environments

Climate-induced and local-scale erosion and sedimentation features in small catchments: Holocene history of two small valleys in Central Russia
Yuri R. Belyaev, Andrey V. Panin & Vladimir R. Belyaev

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Episodic sediment pulses generated by forested flood plain stripping: Bruces Creek, Nadgee State Forest, southeastern Australia
Ashley A. Webb & D. Dragovich

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Temporal and spatial interactions of slope and catchment processes in the Central Spanish Pyrenees
José M. García-Ruiz, Noemí Lana-Renault, Santiago Beguería, Blas Valero-Garcés, Teodoro Lasanta, José Arnáez, Juan I. López-Moreno, David Regüés & Carlos Martí-Bono

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The role of pipe erosion and slopewash in sediment redistribution in small rainforest catchments, Sabah, Malaysia
A.. M. Sayer, R. P. D. Walsh, M. A. Clarke & K. Bidin

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Change of fluvial sediment transport rates after a high magnitude debris flow event in a drainage basin in the Northern Limestone Alps, Germany
Florian Haas, Tobias Heckmann, Volker Wichmann & Michael Becht

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Identification of sediment sources in a small rural drainage basin
Jean Paolo Gomes Minella, Gustavo Henrique Merten & Robin Thomas Clarke

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Sediment redistribution following wildfire in the Sydney region, Australia: a mineral magnetic tracing approach
William H. Blake, Peter J. Wallbrink, Stefan H. Doerr, Richard A. Shakesby & Geoffrey S. Humphreys

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Erosion in basin geosystems of the Middle Volga (from a landscape analysis perspective)
Oleg Yermolaev

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Using Cs-137 measurements and reservoir deposits to investigate the effects of ceasing cultivation on sediment yields and sediment sources in a small catchment on the Loess Plateau of China
Xinbao Zhang, Mingyi Feng & Anbang Wen

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Validating the use of caesium-137 measurements to estimate erosion rates in three small catchments in Southern Italy
Paolo Porto, Des E. Walling & Giovanni Callegari

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Process interaction and sediment delivery in the Pleiser Hügelland, Germany
N. J. Preston & R. Dikau

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Applying various methods for assessing soil and sediment redistribution within an intensively cultivated dry valley subcatchment
Vladimir R. Belyaev, Maxim V. Markelov, Valentin N. Golosov, Yuri R. Belyaev & Elvira V. Tishkina

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Interaction of Rivers and River Catchments in Undisturbed and Intensively Cultivated Basins

Predicting slope–channel connectivity: a national-scale approach
D. E. Walling & Y. Zhang

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Land–ocean sediment transfer in palaeotimes, and implications for present-day natural fluvial fluxes
Andrey Panin

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Recent trends in turbidity and suspended sediment loads in the Murrumbidgee River, NSW, Australia
Jon Olley & Peter Wallbrink

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Investigation of sediment yield of lowland rivers in Ukraine
I. P. Kovalchuk & V. I. Vishnevskiy

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Soil erosion, suspended sediment sources and deposition in the Maw-Ki-Syiem drainage basin, Cherrapunji, northeastern India
Wojciech Froehlich

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A sediment budget for the Herbert River Catchment, North Queensland, Australia
Rebecca Bartley, Jon Olley & Anne Henderson

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The impact of erosion protection work on sediment transport in the River Gråelva, Norway
Jim Bogen & Truls E. Bønsnes

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Sources of fine grained sediment in incised and un-incised channels, Jugiong Creek, NSW, Australia
Peter Wallbrink & Jon Olley

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Relative effects of fluvial processes and historical land use on channel morphology in three sub-basins, Napa River basin, California, USA
Sarah A. Pearce & Robin M. Grossinger

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Erosion and fluvial sediment supply in undisturbed and cultivated basins: the case of the Desix and Maury river basins (western Mediterranean area)
Pierre Serrat & Wolfgang Ludwig

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Drainage basin controls on geochemical heterogeneity of modern stream sediments in the Guadalhorce basin (Spain)
E. N. Aseyeva, N. S. Kasimov, S. B. Kroonenberg & G. J. Weltje

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Large River System Functioning

The relationship between sediment yield and drainage basin area
Alexei Dedkov

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Morphological expressions of river sediment transport and their role in channel processes
Roman S. Chalov

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The relationship between sediment yield and catchment characteristics in the middle Yellow River basin of China
Lu Jinfa & Huang Xiuhua

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Sediment yields and erosion rates in the Napo River Basin: an Ecuadorian Andean Amazon tributary
A. Laraque, C. Céron, E. Armijos, R. Pombosa, P. Magat & J.L. Guyot

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The grain size characteristics of overbank deposits on the flood plains of British lowland rivers
D. E. Walling, D. Fang, A. P. Nicholas & R. J. Sweet

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Decreasing sediment yields in northern California: vestiges of hydraulic gold-mining and reservoir trapping
L. Allan James

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Patterns of erosion and sediment transport in the Murray-Darling Basin
Ronald De Rose, Ian Prosser & Martin Weisse

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The assessment of Ukrainian riverbed deformation
Alexandr G. Obodovsky

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Monitoring of channel processes on the interfluve between the Kama and the Vyatka rivers
Ivan Rysin & Larisa Petukhova

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Analysis of coarse sediment connectivity in semiarid river channels
J. M. Hooke

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Channel adjustments in response to human alteration of sediment fluxes: examples from Italian rivers
Nicola Surian & Massimo Rinaldi

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The settling behaviour of fine sediment particles: some preliminary results from LISST instruments
N. D. Williams, D. E. Walling & G. J. L. Leeks

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In-channel storage of fine sediment in rivers of southwest England
A. J. Wilson, D. E. Walling & G. J. L. Leeks

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Alluvial relief structure and bottom sediments of the lower Volga River
V. N. Korotaev, V. V. Ivanov & A. Yu. Sidorchuk

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Sediment transport and morphodynamics of the Tanaro River, northwestern Italy
Annunziato Siviglia, Bianca Federici, Ignazio Becchi & Massimo Rinaldi

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The stratigraphy, mode of deposition and age of inset flood plains on the Barwon-Darling River, Australia
M. C. Thoms & J. M. Olley

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On sediment transport in the Łososina River in the Polish Carpathians
Tadeusz Bednarczyk, Arthur Radecki-Pawlik, Przemysław Baran & Ewa Słowik-Opoka

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Sedimentological assessment of the Tucuruí Reservoir (Tocantins River, Brazil)
Newton De Oliveira Carvalho, Antônio Raimundo Santos Ribeiro Coimbra, Bruno Leonel Payolla, Tarcísio Luiz Coelho De Castro & Anderson Braga Mendes

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Modelling of Erosion and Deposition Processes

Soil erosion at the mesoscale: comparison of two erosion models for a pre-alpine Austrian basin
G. Wolkerstorfer & P. Strauss

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Probability distribution function approach in stochastic modelling of soil erosion
Aleksey Sidorchuk, Alistair Smith & Vladimir Nikora

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A model of rill erosion by snowmelt
Yuri P. Sukhanovski, Valery V. Demidov & Gregor Ollesch

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Hydrophysical model of soil erosion: a basic equation and influence of bed load and suspended sediment on soil detachment by shallow water flow
G. A. Larionov, N. G. Dobrovolskaya, Z. P. Kiryukhina, S. F. Krasnov & L. F. Litvin

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Spatial modelling of debris flows in an alpine drainage basin
Volker Wichmann & Michael Becht

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Computation of the regime configuration of a meandering stream
D. Termini & M. S. Yalin

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Using computer modelling for regulation of sediment transport under hydraulic structures on a large river
A. A. Zaitsev, V. V. Belikov & A. N. Militeev

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Movement of bed forms and sediment yield of rivers
Nikolay I. Alekseevskiy

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A particle tracking method to simulate sediment transfer over flood plains
Ivo Thonon, Kor De Jong, Marcel Van Der Perk & Hans Middelkoop

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Monitoring and modelling flow and suspended sediment transport processes in alluvial cutoffs
R. I. Sutton, A. P. Nicholas & D. E. Walling

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Implications for Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer

Monitoring suspended sediment and associated trace element and nutrient fluxes in large river basins in the USA
Arthur J. Horowitz

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Sediment–contaminant interactions and transport: a new perspective
Ian G. Droppo & Gary G. Leppard

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Transport and retention of copper fungicides in vineyards
Marcel Van Der Perk, Victor Jetten, Erik Heskes, Marja Segers & Ingrid Wijntjens

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The role of soil phosphorus in controlling sediment-associated phosphorus transfers in river catchments
Philip N. Owens & Lynda K. Deeks

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Soil erosion, nutrient migration and surface water pollution in Russia
Leonid F. Litvin & Zoya P. Kiryukhina

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Hydrological and biological event based variability in the fine-grained sediment structure of a small undisturbed catchment
J. L. McConnachie & E. L. Petticrew

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Transport of phosphorus, wash load and suspended sediment in the River Varde Å in southwest Jutland, Denmark
Hans Thodsen, Bent Hasholt & Morten Pejrup

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Nitrogen content of suspended matter in the Kam Tin River, Hong Kong
M. R. Peart

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Spatial distribution of particulate phosphorus forms in the Slave River Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada
Michael Stone

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Implications of nutrient and soil transfer with runoff in the northeastern region of India
U. C. Sharma & Vikas Sharma

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Key word index

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