Capillary trapping of buoyant particles within regions of emergent vegetation

The seeds of many aquatic plants are buoyant and thus transported at the water surface, where they are subject to surface tension that may enhance their retention within emergent vegetation. Specifically, seeds may be trapped by surface tension (i.e., by the Cheerios effect) at the surface-piercing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peruzzo, Paolo, Defina, Andrea, Nepf, Heidi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72492