Modelling blackwater: Predicting water quality during flooding of lowland river forests

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 229-242

  Howitt, Julia A ^a   Baldwin, Darren S ^a   Rees, Gavin N ^a   Williams, Janice L ^a  

^a MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barmah Millewa Forest; Dissolved organic carbon; Dissolved oxygen; Eucalyptus camaldulensis; River Murray; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOODS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS;

BARMAH-MILLEWA FOREST; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER MURRAY;

WATER QUALITY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANOXIA; BIODEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; LITTER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; OVERSTORY; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUCALYPTUS ROSTRATA; FLOODS; FORESTS; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BARMAH-MILLEWA FOREST; MURRAY RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS;

EID: 34047125804     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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