What increased geomorphological process results when vegetation is removed from an alluvial floodplain?

💡 Explanation

When vegetation is removed, the protection against erosion is diminished, triggering increased bank erosion because root structures no longer bind soil, increasing lateral channel migration. Therefore, enhanced rates of lateral channel migration result, rather than deposition, stabilization or reduced flooding, which require vegetation to perform those stabilization functions.

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