Discuss the view that geomorphology is interdisciplinary in scope and nature
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Additional data or analyses may be needed to bolster output from hydraulic models when linking to ecological data. Nonethe- less, spatially explicit hydraulic models offer a promising approach to documenting spatial pat- terns and processes of flooding for ecological pur- poses ( Meitzen et al. 2013). Our results, along with previous studies that have used similar mod- els to describe inundation dynamics for ecological purposes, indicate that there is great potential for 2D hydraulic models to advance process-based knowledge of floodplain ecosystems. ...
River-valley morphology, basin size, and flow-event magnitude interact to produce wide variation in flooding dynamic
... However, as- sessments of environmental flows have mainly focused on determining minimum flows for chosen instream flow criteria (e.g., fish), while the rest of the ecosystem has usually been disregarded (Acreman et al., 2009;Petts, 2009). Although it is commonly known that a functioning floodplain is vital for the health of the entire ecosys- tem, its requirements have rarely been included in environmental flow assessments (Meitzen et al., 2013;Pusch and Hoffmann, 2000). For this reason, Thoms and Sheldon (2002) argue that environmental flow assessment must go beyond the consideration of only single ele- ments. ...