Which outcome results from river channel avulsion promoting oxbow formation?

💡 Explanation

Avulsion causes the river to abandon its old channel and create a new, shorter path; this increases sediment deposition on the floodplain because of the change in flow path, therefore leading to increased deposition, rather than reduced habitat diversity.

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