Transport/Deposition . ,j 



Degradation/Aggradation Substrate, slope, stage, vegetation. 



General Material Availability of material, protection removal/transport (armoring), 



filtration, adsorption, stage (velocity). 



Ice Temperature, geomoiphology, stage, velocity. 



Geomorphology/Channel Geometry 



Channel Cross-Section Substrate texture and configuration, discharge, transport/ 



deposition. 



Sinuosity Substrate texture and configuration, discharge, transport/ 



deposition, hydraulic gradient. 



Ice Weather, stageAinundation/velocity, substrate. 



Recruitment/Reproduction 



Seed, Sprout Transport/deposition, substrate texture, moisture/inundation. 



Survival 



Moisture MoistureAnundation. 



Nutrients, Physical/chemical water quality, transport/deposition. 



Water Quality 



Solar Shading. 



Disturbance Factors Stage/inimdation/velocity, moisture factors, aerobic state, salt 



flux, shading, aggradation/degradation, material transport,ice, 

 community dynamics (competition). 



Community Dynamics 



Community dynamics incorporates all of the reproduction/recruitment and survival factors. 



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