Water quality and sediment and nutrient export from New Zealand hill-land catchments of contrasting land use

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 409-429

  Quinn, John M ^a   Stroud, Morag J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Alkalinity; Dissolved organic carbon; Erosion; Native forest; Nitrate; Nitrogen; PH; Phosphorus; Plantation forestry; Sediment; Stream flow; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FLOW; LAND USE; NUTRIENT; SEDIMENT; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0036622896     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2002.9517097     Document Type: Article

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