Transport of water, solutes and nutrients from a pasture hillslope, southwestern Brazilian Amazon

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2527-2547

  Biggs, Trent Wade ^a,b   Dunne, Thomas ^a   Muraoka, Takashi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERA INCORPORATED   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Cattle ranching; Deforestation; Humid tropics; Hydrology; Land use change

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; LAND USE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATTLE RANCHING; HORTON OVERLAND FLOW (HOF); HUMID TROPICS; SATURATION OVERLAND FLOW (SOF);

HYDROLOGY;

DEFORESTATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; LAND USE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEFORESTATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HILLSLOPE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT; OVERLAND FLOW; PASTURE; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33747037780     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6214     Document Type: Article

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