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Emergent properties of bio-physical self-organization in streams
Cornacchia, Loreta
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Emergent properties of bio-physical
self-organization in streams
Loreta Cornacchia, 2018. Emergent properties of bio-physical self-organization in streams. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Copyright© 2018 by Loreta Cornacchia. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced by print, photocopy or any other means without the permission in writing from the author.
The research presented in this thesis was carried out at the Department of Estuarine and Delta System of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ-Yerseke), and the Conservation Ecology Group, part of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). This research was supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN under grant agreement N. 316546. Printing of this thesis was financially supported by NIOZ and University of Groningen.
ISBN: 978-94-034-0347-2 (Printed version) ISBN: 978-94-034-0346-5 (Electronic version) Printed by: Gildeprint – The Netherlands
Front cover: Amazon Underwater Biotope (© Ivan Mikolji www.mikolji.com) Back cover: Channel along the Rhône river, near Flévieu (France) (photo by Loreta Cornacchia)
Emergent properties of bio-physical
self-organization in streams
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
op gezag van de
rector magnificus prof. dr. E. Sterken en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op vrijdag 23 februari 2018 om 12.45 uur
door
Loreta Cornacchia
geboren op 22 maart 1988 te Bari, Italië
Promotores
Prof. T.J. Bouma Prof. J. van de Koppel Prof. D. van der Wal
Beoordelingscommissie
Prof. K.R. Timmermans Prof. M.G. Rietkerk Prof. M.G. Kleinhans
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
General introduction 1
Chapter 2
Plants regulate river flows and water levels through self-organization 15
Chapter 3
Landscapes of facilitation: how self-organized patchiness of aquatic
macrophytes promotes diversity in streams 41
Chapter 4
Flow-divergence feedbacks underlie propagule retention by in-stream
vegetation: the importance of spatial patterns for facilitation 75
Chapter 5
Plants face the flow in V-formation: a study of plant patch alignment in
streams 101
Chapter 6
Turbulence-mediated facilitation of resource uptake in patchy stream
macrophytes 125
