Drainage channel network

Strahler, AN. (1964). Quantitative geomorphology of drainage basins and channel networks. 

Enormous meandering rivers are the most remarkable fluvial feature of the Amazon landscape, but these rivers are only the largest component of a much denser network of streams which finely dissects and drains the basin. In terms of combined length and total amount of lotic habitat, streams dominate over their more visible downstream counterparts this dominance is especially dramatic for first- and second-order streams which alone may account for greater than 80% of total channel length in meso-scale Amazon drainag basins (Table 12.1). 

Drainage networks and hydromorphological characteristics of the channel, such as the slope, width and depth of the main channel and the flood plain, and the roughness and bed sediment characteristics of channels of various orders ... 

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