Upland disturbance affects headwater stream nutrients and suspended sediments during baseflow and stormflow

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 352-365

  Houser, Jeffrey N ^a,c   Mulholland, Patrick J ^a   Maloney, Kelly O ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; STREAM FLOW;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC); INORGANIC SUSPENDED SEDIMENT (ISS); SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS (SRP); TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENT (TSS);

SEDIMENTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER WATER; STORM WATER;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INORGANIC SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; MILITARY PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; STREAM (RIVER); TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TRAINING; VEGETATION;

FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; WATER;

EID: 31844444908     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0102     Document Type: Article

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