Czuba, Jonathan A.Allen, George H.2024-02-122024-02-122023-07-131535-1459https://hdl.handle.net/10919/117960The distinction between a “stream” and “river” is imprecise and vague despite the popular usage of the terms across disciplines for describing flowing waterbodies. Based on an analysis of named flowing waterbodies in the continental United States, we suggest a bank-to-bank channel width of 15 m as a working threshold in defining smaller “streams” from larger “rivers.”.Pages 1925-19295 page(s)application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalchannel widthriverriver definitionriver versus streamstreamstream definitionArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4185399Czuba, Jonathan [0000-0002-9485-2604]Allen, George [0000-0001-8301-5301]1535-1467