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Damià Vericat

Damià Vericat

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
7290
World Ranking
3878
National Ranking
54

Overview

Damià Vericat is affiliated with the University of Lleida in Spain and specializes in research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly focus encompasses several subfields, chiefly Ecology, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics addressed by Vericat predominantly involve Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydraulic Flow and Structures, and Landslides and Related Hazards.

Vericat has contributed to numerous papers, including recent publications such as:

  • Geomorphic adjustments to multi-scale disturbances in a mountain river: A century of observations, 2020, CATENA
  • A review of the impacts of dams on the hydromorphology of tropical rivers, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hydropeaked rivers need attention, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Effects of Hydropeaking on Bed Mobility: Evidence from a Pyrenean River, 2020, Water
  • 100 key questions to guide hydropeaking research and policy, 2023, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Collaborations have frequently involved co-authors such as Ramón J. Batalla, Manel Llena, Christopher Gibbins, Fanny Ville, and Baptiste Marteau.

Vericat's works have appeared multiple times in noted publication venues including The Science of The Total Environment, River Research and Applications, Geomorphology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Best Publications

  • Modeling river bed morphology, roughness, and surface sedimentology using high resolution terrestrial laser scanning

    J. Brasington;J. Brasington;D. Vericat;I. Rychkov

  • Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

    Tobias Heckmann;Marco Cavalli;Olivier Cerdan;Saskia Foerster

  • From experimental plots to experimental landscapes: topography, erosion and deposition in sub‐humid badlands from Structure‐from‐Motion photogrammetry

    Mark William Smith;Damià Vericat

  • Sediment transport in a large impounded river: The lower Ebro, NE Iberian Peninsula

    Damia Vericat;Ramon J. Batalla

  • When is stream invertebrate drift catastrophic? The role of hydraulics and sediment transport in initiating drift during flood events

    Christopher Neil Gibbins;Damia Vericat;Ramon J. Batalla

  • Morphodynamic signatures of braiding mechanisms as expressed through change in sediment storage in a gravel-bed river

    Joseph M. Wheaton;James Brasington;Stephen E. Darby;Alan Kasprak

  • Breakup and reestablishment of the armour layer in a large gravel-bed river below dams: The lower Ebro

    Damia Vericat;Ramon J. Batalla;Celso Garcia

  • Hyperscale terrain modelling of braided rivers: fusing mobile terrestrial laser scanning and optical bathymetric mapping

    R. D. Williams;J. Brasington;D. Vericat;D. M. Hicks

  • Linking geomorphic changes to salmonid habitat at a scale relevant to fish

    Joseph M. Wheaton;James Brasington;Stephen E. Darby;Joseph E. Merz

  • Suspended sediment transport in a highly erodible catchment: the River Isábena (Southern Pyrenees).

    J.A. López-Tarazón;R.J. Batalla;D. Vericat;T. Francke

  • Detecting the structural and functional impacts of fine sediment on stream invertebrates

    Cristina Buendia;Cristina Buendia;Christopher N. Gibbins;Damia Vericat;Damia Vericat;Ramon J. Batalla;Ramon J. Batalla

  • Effects of afforestation on runoff and sediment load in an upland Mediterranean catchment.

    C. Buendia;C. Buendia;Gianbattista Bussi;J. Tuset;D. Vericat

  • Application of Structure‐from‐Motion photogrammetry to river restoration

    Baptiste Marteau;Damià Vericat;Chris Gibbins;Ramon J. Batalla;Ramon J. Batalla

  • Hydrological and sediment transport dynamics of flushing flows: implications for management in large Mediterranean Rivers.

    Ramon J. Batalla;Damià Vericat

  • Bed load bias: Comparison of measurements obtained using two (76 and 152 mm) Helley‐Smith samplers in a gravel bed river

    Damia Vericat;Michael Church;Ramon J. Batalla

  • Combined scenarios of chemical and ecological quality under water scarcity in Mediterranean rivers

    M. Petrovic;A. Ginebreda;V. Acuña;R.J. Batalla

  • The effects of land use and topographic changes on sediment connectivity in mountain catchments.

    M. Llena;D. Vericat;M. Cavalli;S. Crema

  • Computational and methodological aspects of terrestrial surface analysis based on point clouds

    Igor Rychkov;James Brasington;Damií Vericat

  • Rainfall, runoff and sediment transport relations in a mesoscale mountainous catchment: The River Isábena (Ebro basin)

    J.A. López-Tarazón;R.J. Batalla;D. Vericat;J.C. Balasch

  • Accuracy assessment of aerial photographs acquired using lighter-than-air blimps: low-cost tools for mapping river corridors

    Damia Vericat;James Brasington;Joseph M. Wheaton;Michaela Cowie

  • Revisiting the Morphological Approach

    Damià Vericat;Joseph M. Wheaton;James Brasington

  • Linking the spatial distribution of bed load transport to morphological change during high‐flow events in a shallow braided river

    R. D. Williams;C. D. Rennie;J. Brasington;D. M. Hicks

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramon J. Batalla
Ramon J. Batalla University of Lleida
James Brasington
James Brasington University of Canterbury
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
Marco Cavalli
Marco Cavalli National Research Council (CNR)
Sergi Sabater
Sergi Sabater University of Girona
Stephen E. Darby
Stephen E. Darby University of Southampton
Francesc Gallart
Francesc Gallart Spanish National Research Council
Lorenzo Marchi
Lorenzo Marchi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton

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