| Title | Deep-seated landslides drive variability in valley width and increase connectivity of salmon habitat in the Oregon Coast Range |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Beeson, Helen W., Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Mark A. Fonstad, and Joshua J. Roering |
| Secondary Title | JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association |
| Volume | 54 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pagination | p.1325-1340 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Electronic Subscription, Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Charlotte Creek, Coho salmon = Oncorhynchus kisutch, Dean Creek, geographic distribution, geology, habitats, Halfway Creek, Herb Creek, landslides, paleosciences, Rock Creek, Sand Creek, Scare Creek, Scholfield Creek, sediments, Sweden Creek, Tyee Formation, Umpqua River, Yellow Creek |
| Notes | A significant percentage of land in the Oregon Coast Range is subject to deep-seated landslides. Many landslides have ancient origins, and have been postulated to date as far back as the Pleistocene. The authors of this paper define deep-seated landslides as cases in which a majority of slopes fail in a given watershed. “We explore how the presence of extensive deep-seated landsliding affects valley floor width and the quantity and connectivity of seasonal habitat for Coho Salmon by comparing these metrics in five subbasins in the Umpqua River Basin with extensive DSLs to five subbasins in the Umpqua River Basin without deep-seated landsides. We hypothesize that DSLs promote variable valley width and hence a higher frequency of anomalously wide valleys and that this results in greater connectivity between seasonal habitat types.” (p.1326) This is an open-access article. |
| URL | https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/57786 |
| DOI | 10.1111/1752-1688.12693 |
