Publications by Katharina Maria Edmaier

Experimental characterization of vegetation uprooting by flow

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

We investigate vegetation uprooting by flow for Avena sativa seedlings with stem-to-sediment size ratio close to unity and vanishing obstacle-induced scouring. By inducing parallel riverbed erosion within an experimental flume, we measure the time-to-uproo ...

2015

Uprooting mechanisms of juvenile vegetation by flow erosion

Katharina Maria Edmaier

EPFL2014

Flow-induced uprooting of young vegetation on river bedforms

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

Riparian vegetation stabilizes sediment by its roots and henceforth impacts riparian morphodynamics. After germination or vegetative reproduction on river bars or islands, juvenile plants are exposed to a high risk of mortality due to uprooting by floods. ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Biomechanics of plant anchorage at early development stage

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

We propose a minimal model for the response of seedlings to pullout constraints. Central to our approach is the idea of capturing not only average mechanical properties but also the stochastic component of the uprooting process. Our model accounts on one h ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Influence of root characteristics and soil variables on the uprooting mechanics of Avena sativa and Medicago sativa seedlings

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Burlando, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

The success of seedlings and rejuvenated woody debris growing on river bedforms depends on the resistance to uprooting by flow provided by their simple root architecture. Avena sativa and Medicago sativa seedlings were used in flume experiments as prototyp ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Impact of floods on the statistical distribution of riverbed vegetation

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

Investigating the colonization of river bars by pioneer vegetation, we discuss how the balance between uprooting by flooding events and reinforcement of plant roots determines the ability for vegetation to colonize the riverbed. In order to access the comp ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Biomass selection by floods and related timescales: Part 1. Experimental observations

Benoît Crouzy, Peter Molnar, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier, Zhe Jiang

Several research investigations have explored the interaction between morphodynamic and vegetation growth processes from both the modelling and the experimental viewpoints. Results have mainly been concerned with morphologic analyses of the effects of vege ...

Elsevier2012

Experimental characterization of root anchoring in non-cohesive sediment

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Burlando, Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

Taylor & Francis Group2012

Mechanisms of vegetation uprooting by flow in alluvial non-cohesive sediment

Paolo Perona, Katharina Maria Edmaier

The establishment of riparian pioneer vegetation is of crucial importance within river restoration projects. After germination or vegetative reproduction on river bars juvenile plants are often exposed to mortality by uprooting caused by floods. At later s ...

2011