Effects of forestry activities on streamwater chemistry of a small mountainous sub-watershed at Serikawa river basin on Shikoku Island, Japan

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 205-213

  Rahman, Abu Farah Md Anisur ^a   Hiura, Hiromasa ^b   Shino, Kazuo ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow adjusted concentration; Nonparametric statistics; Partial logging; Reforestation; Streamwater chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 24744468604     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.39.205     Document Type: Article

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