The use of carbon and nitrogen isotopes to study watershed erosion processes

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1047-1064

  Fox, James F ^a   Papanicolaou, Athanasios N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Isotopes; Modeling; Sediment transport; Soils; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATERSHEDS;

HEADCUT EROSION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; UNMIXING MODEL;

EROSION;

EROSION; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATERSHEDS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER; WATERSHED;

EID: 34547138393     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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