Sedimentation associated with forest road surfacing in a bottomland hardwood ecosystem

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 90, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Rummer, Bob ^a   Stokes, Bryce ^a   Lockaby, Graeme ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Logging roads; Water quality; Wetland forests

Indexed keywords

ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND FOREST;

EID: 0031060904     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03904-7     Document Type: Article

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