Appendix F 



Processes and Associated Factors Controlling 



Riparian Function 



Moisture/Inundation 



Discharge 



Stage/Inundation/ 

 Velocity 



Flood Plain Recharge 



Flood Plain Storage 

 and Release 



Saturated Surface 



Capillarity 



Evapotranspiration 

 Vegetation 



Climate/weadier, watershed roughness/detention, slope. 



Discharge, channel geometry, energy dissipation 



(hydraulic controls, channel/flood plain roughness), hydraulic 



gradient. 



Substrate texture and configuration, stage^nundation (depth, ex- 

 tent, duration), vegetation. 



Substrate texture and configiiration, flood plain recharge. 



Recharge, substrate texture and configuration, hydraulic 



gradient. 



Substrate texture and configuration, saturated surface. 

 Shading and wind, capillarity. 



Physical and Chemical Water Quality 

 Aerobic State 



Salt Flux (flood plain) 



Nutrient Flux 



Material Flux 

 Cation Exchange 

 Shading, Wind 

 Biologic Input^elease 



Substrate texture and configuration, hydraulic gradient, 

 vegetation density. 



Dissolved solids in saturated surface, capillarity, evapotranspira- 

 tion, flood plain recharge. 



Transport/deposition, capillarity, recharge, evapotranspiration, 

 biological processes. 



Transport/deposition, vegetation, substrate texture, discharge. 



Substrate texture and composition, vegetation. 



Vegetation, geomorphology, topography. 



Temperature, organisms, water chemistry. 



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