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Threshold Hillslopes

Threshold Hillslopes is a geomorphological construct that denotes hillslopes operating at a critical state where small changes in environmental forcing or material properties trigger abrupt shifts in erosional behavior, distinguishing it from gradual or linear slope evolution models by representing the boundary between transport-limited and detachment-limited regimes in landscape evolution.

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2017–2026

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Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas

Douglas W. Burbank, John Leland, E. J. Fielding et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.2K citations

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Channel Initiation and the Problem of Landscape Scale

David R. Montgomery, W. E. Dietrich · Science · 1992 · 743 citations

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Hillslope processes, drainage density, and landscape morphology

Gregory E. Tucker, Rafael L. Bras · Water Resources Research · 1998 · 623 citations · Full text

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Beyond threshold hillslopes: Channel adjustment to base-level fall in tectonically active mountain ranges

William B. Ouimet, K. X. Whipple, Darryl E. Granger · Geology · 2009 · 576 citations

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Ecological mitigation of hillslope instability: ten key issues facing researchers and practitioners

Alexia Stokes, Grant Douglas, Thierry Fourcaud et al. · Plant and Soil · 2014 · 385 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. OK
    Oliver Korup

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    4 publications · 321 citations

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  2. AM
    Arjun M. Heimsath

    Arizona State University, United States

    3 publications · 240 citations

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  3. KX
    K. X. Whipple

    Arizona State University, United States

    3 publications · 741 citations

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  4. DW
    Douglas W. Burbank

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. JJ
    Jeffrey J. McDonnell

    University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    2 publications · 268 citations

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  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    493 citations

  2. Earth and Space Research

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    2.9K citations

  3. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    1K citations

  4. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

    Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    451 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    278 citations

  7. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    268 citations

  8. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    421 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 4 publications · 333 citations

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  2. Geology

    3 publications · 936 citations

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  3. Journal of Hydrology

    3 publications · 287 citations

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  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    2 publications · 169 citations

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  5. CATENA

    2 publications · 80 citations

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