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Consequences of human‐altered floods: levees, floods, and floodplain forests along the wisconsin river

2002-12-01

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Flood‐control levees are generally thought to increase flood height and velocity for a given discharge. While extensive areas of floodplain in the United States are leveed, the ecological impacts of levees have largely been ignored relative to other anthropogenic impacts to large river floodplains. We examined a century of flood control along the Wisconsin River by comparing simulated flood regimes under “levee” a...

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DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1755:cohafl]2.0.co;2

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