Comparison of corn pollen and natural fine particulate matter transport in streams: Can pollen be used as a seston surrogate?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-16

  Georgian, Theodore ^a   Newbold, J Denis ^b   Thomas, Steven A ^c   Monaghan, Michael T ^d   Minshall, G Wayne ^e   Cushing, Colbert E ^f  

^a ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Eco Metrics Inc   (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn pollen; Deposition velocity; FPOM; Particle transport; Rouse number; Seston analog; Seston surrogate; Settling velocity

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLEN; SESTON; STREAM;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037336670     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1467974     Document Type: Article

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