How come clearing vegetation around a creek will result in less light penetrating the water?

Answer 1

The only reasons I can think of are:

1) once the vegetation over the creek is cleared, more aquatic vegetation and algae will grow blocking sunlight to the bottom

2) lack of plants will cause erosion and the water will be murky from the soil erosion

Answer 2

Clearing vegetation around a creek will result in less light penetrating the water because the soil around the creek won't be able to hold off because of the lack of plants, causing soil erosion which goes to the water. Other than that, because of the lack of vegetation, nature has to somewhat "balance" itself and so algae grow in number in the creek. Land clearing might be contributing vast amounts of carbon dioxide because there won't be any form of vegetation that will convert CO2 to oxygen. So, the CO2 goes to the river and contaminates it leading to murky water which blocks the passage of sunlight.

Answer 3

It won't. that's false.