8274

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8274
• Author: Pitlick, J. and R. Cress.
• Title: Longitudinal Trends in Channel Characteristics of the Colorado River and Implications for Food-Web Dynamics.
• USFW Year: 2000.
• USFW - Doc Type: Recovery Implementation Program Project 48-C,
• Copyright Material: NO

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. General characteristics of study reaches ...................................................................6
Table 2. Summary of sediment rating curve coefficients and exponents ...............................15
Table 3. Results of GIS analysis of channel change in the Rifle-DeBeque reach .................19
Table 4. Results of GIS analysis of channel change in reaches near Grand Junction ............ 21
Table 5. Summary statistics of annual discharge and sediment load for gauging stations on
the main stem of the Colorado River ..............................................................................22
Table 6. Results of Mann-Whitney tests of differences in annual discharge and sediment
load for two time periods, 1934-1958 and 1959-1997 ...................................................26
Table 7. Estimates of discharges required to reach initial-motion and bankfull-flow levels
in individual subreaches of the Colorado River ..............................................................38
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