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Session Proposal: Reshaping Landscapes, Revving Up Life: Exploring Processes and Impacts of River Network Reorganization (AGU25)

EP028
Reshaping Landscapes, Revving Up Life: Exploring Processes and Impacts of River Network Reorganization

Session ID#: 252145

Session Description:
River networks play a fundamental role in shaping Earth’s surface—sculpting landscapes, routing water, sediment, and nutrients across continents, and sustaining critical aquatic habitats. They also influence the distribution and evolution of terrestrial and aquatic species, acting as both barriers and dispersal corridors. Crucially, these networks are dynamic: they reorganize over timescales from decades to millions of years through processes such as drainage divide migration, river capture, and avulsion. These reorganizations can produce erosive pulses and alter fluvial connectivity, driving both geomorphic change and biological diversification. However, the fundamental controls on these reorganization modes, their relative importance, and the interplay between external and autogenic drivers remain open questions.This session invites contributions that examine the mechanisms, rates, and impacts of drainage network reorganization. We encourage studies that investigate how these changes influence landscape evolution and biodiversity.  Approaches may include field observations, geochronology, numerical and analog modeling, molecular datasets, phylogenomics, and biogeography.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Pedro Val, CUNY Queens College, Flushing, NY, United States
Conveners:  Maya Stokes, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States, Julia C. Carr, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, United States and Eyal Marder, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States
 
Riverscape Dynamics and Habitat Utilization Structure Evolutionary Diversification in Amazonian Electric Fishes (1855664)
James S Albert, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, UNITED STATES
 
Long-term fluvial connection between the western Snake River Plain and Columbia Basin and a two-phased incision history of Hells Canyon (1902288)
Lydia Staisch1, Jim E O'Connor1, Charles Matthew Cannon1, Christopher Holm-Denoma2 and Maxwell Schwid3, (1)USGS Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysical Science Center, Portland, United States, (2)USGS Geology Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, (3)USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, United States
 
River capture driven by extreme rainfall events: A case study of the Horsa–Dapu River Divide in central Taiwan (1903908)
Ya Yun Huang1, En-Hung Chen1 and Su-Chin Chen2, (1)National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, (2)Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Taichung, Taiwan
 
Geomorphic Feedbacks and the Longevity of Drainage Reorganization (Invited) (1917508)
Eitan Shelef1, Liran Goren2, Tianyue Qu1, Elhanan Harel2, Omri Porat2, Onn Crouvi3, Sean F Gallen4 and Philip Prince5, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, United States, (2)Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel, (3)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Field and Topographic Evidence of Stream Capture In the Wake of the Mendocino Triple Junction, Northern Coast Ranges, California (1926712)
Holden Sokey, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Dr. Madison Douglas, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
Tectonic controls on Landscape Evolution and Drainage Reorganization in the Sila Massif, Southern Italy, and Implications for Rock Uplift Patterns in the Calabrian forearc (1928372)
Ana Pérez and Sean F Gallen, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States
 
Drainage reorganization in gently-dipping layered rock (1970163)
Alexander Neely1, Daniel Peifer2, Thomas Bernard3, Christoph Glotzbach4, Mr. Alexander R Beer5, Mirjam Schaller4, Richard Ott6, Yanqing Shi7 and Todd Ehlers8, (1)Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)The University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States, (4)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (5)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zürich, Switzerland, (7)College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, (8)University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
Population genetic evidence for river capture across the Eastern Continental Divide, USA (1972614)
Maya F. Stokes and Alexis Culley, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
 
Comparing Grain Size, Soil Depth, and Soil Production Rates Across a Mobile Divide: Implications for Evolution of the Critical Zone (1979662)
Maia Seeley1, Jo Patton1, Jonah Talmadge1, Isaac Ajayi1, Grace Hobbs1, Kristin Sweeney1 and Will Struble2, (1)University of Portland, Portland, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, United States
 
Linking drainage divide asymmetry to lithologic influence on baselevel (1984436)
Pedro Val, CUNY Queens College, Flushing, NY, United States and Daniel Peifer, The University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
 
Linking Drainage Divide and Colluvial-Valley Morphology to Drainage Reorganization: The Role of Hillslope Processes (1991278)
Jonah Talmadge1, Jo Patton1, Maia Seeley1, Will Struble2 and Kristin Sweeney1, (1)University of Portland, Portland, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, United States