The Network Dynamics Hypothesis: How Channel Networks Structure Riverine Habitats

By L. Benda, N. LeRoy Poff, Daniel R. Miller, T. Dunne, G. Reeves, G. Pess, M. Pollock. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology

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• A STREAM EVOLUTION MODEL INTEGRATING HABITAT AND ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS (2014, background): “Unsurprisingly, confluences have been found to be both ecological hotspots (Benda et al., 2004) and places where ecological communities shift (Rice et al., 2001).”
• Tributary control of physical heterogeneity and biological diversity at river confluences (2006, background): “2001a) and the valuable framework provided by the network dynamics hypothesis (Benda et al. 2004b).”
• The River Discontinuum: Applying Beaver Modifications to Baseline Conditions for Restoration of Forested Headwaters (2010, background): “The longitudinal gradient of the RCC has been expanded to allow for lateral (Junk et al. 1989) and subsurface (Stanford and Ward 1993) continuity, and has given way in part to longitudinal discontinuity generated by geologic features and physical processes (Montgomery 1999, Benda et al. 2004).”
• Living in the branches: population dynamics and ecological processes in dendritic networks. (2007, background): “2d,e; e.g. Joyce et al. 1999; Liu et al. 2003; Benda et al. 2004; Keefer et al. 2006).”
• Tangled webs: reciprocal flows of invertebrate prey link streams and riparian zones (2005, background): “Catchment geomorphology constrains the spatial arrangement of tributary junctions and alluvial floodplain segments (Frissell et al., 1986; Montgomery, 1999), both of which represent ‘hotspots’ in riverine landscapes (Stanford, 1998; Power & Dietrich, 2002; Benda et al., 2004).”
• Dispersal strength determines meta‐community structure in a dendritic riverine network (2015, background): “This is largely because streams and rivers are organized as complex dendritic networks rather than simple linear systems (Benda et al., 2004; Campbell Grant et al., 2007; Er}os et al., 2012), thus necessitating the incorporation of network connectivity to explore the interactions among communities…”
• Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Pathways to Resilient Salmon Ecosystems Freshwater Ecosystems and Resilience of Pacific Salmon: Habitat Management Based on Natural Variability (2009, background): “This longterm dynamic of aquatic habitat following disturbances was modeled by Benda et al. (2004) based on existing sediment budgets and evidence of natural disturbance frequency for coastal salmon streams.”
• Bank Erosion as a Desirable Attribute of Rivers (2008, neutral): “The channel banks and vegetation within riparian areas make up the substrate for insects emerging from the water, and those insects provide a food source for breeding and migrating birds (Benke and Wallace 1990, Graf et al. 2002).”
• Pesticides, aquatic food webs, and the conservation of Pacific salmon (2010, background): “Also, because of the connectivity of riverine networks (Benda et al. 2004; Kiffney et al. 2006), pesticide exposure can reduce local prey abundance, as well as the abundance of prey downstream.”
• Brook Trout Movement in Response to Temperature, Flow, and Thermal Refugia within a Complex Appalachian Riverscape (2012, background): “In the main stem, tributary confluences have been shown to contain higher densities of coarse substrate and LWD (Benda et al. 2004; Kiffney et al. 2006), which are known to support high invertebrate productivity (Benke et al.”
• Stream Fish Assemblages in Relation to Landscape Position and Local Habitat Variables (2005, background): “The usefulness of confluence link in characterizing fish assemblages is an important insight consistent with efforts to identify metrics relevant to both watershed network geomorphology and ecology (Benda et al. 2004).”
• Small but mighty: headwaters are vital to stream network biodiversity at two levels of organization (2011, background): “Streams are branching networks, and this alternative to linearity has been conceptualized in various ways during the past decade (Fagan 2002, Benda et al. 2004, Grant et al. 2007, Morrissey and de Kerckhove 2009).”