Riparian forest harvesting effects on maximum water temperatures in wetland-sourced headwater streams from the Nicola River watershed, British Columbia, Canada

Water Resources Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 565-578

  Rayne, Sierra ^a   Henderson, Gregory ^b   Gill, Paramjit ^a   Forest, Kaya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Matrix Solutions Inc   (Canada)

^c OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Headwater streams; Riparian harvesting activities; Stream temperature; Thermal equilibrium; Water quality

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

HEADWATER STREAMS; LOTIC-SOURCED WATERSHED; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

WATERSHEDS;

HARVESTING; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

HARVESTING; HEADWATER; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RIPARIAN FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WETLAND;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NICOLA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41149167316     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-007-9178-8     Document Type: Article

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