Rens Masselink

TL;DR: A short review of the State-of-the-Art of the connectivity concept is provided, from which it is concluded that scientists have been struggling to find a way to quantify connectivity so far.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored sediment connectivity in response to sequences of rainfall events and found that feedback between erosion and deposition are more important for certain landscape morphologies than for others: rolling or V-shaped catchments than from dissected or stepped landscapes.

TL;DR: This review evaluates how a connectivity-based approach has generated new understanding of structural-functional relationships that characterise complex systems and proposes a ‘common toolbox’ underpinned by network-based approaches that can advance connectivity studies by overcoming existing constraints.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used existing data to assess governing factors of connectivity, and how these change over time, using a linear model for discharge and suspended-sediment yield.

TL;DR: In this paper, two contrasting conceptual models for sediment connectivity were assessed using a Random Forest (RF) machine learning method using a 15-year period of measured sediment output at the catchment scale, and the results showed that low intensity events do not contribute any sediment from the hillslopes to the channel in the Latxaga catchment.