Fallout radionuclide tracers identify a switch in sediment sources and transport-limited sediment yield following wildfire in a eucalypt forest

Geomorphology

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 140-151

  Wilkinson, S N ^a   Wallbrink, P J ^a   Hancock, G J ^a   Blake, W H ^b   Shakesby, R A ^c   Doerr, S H ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phosphorus; Radionuclides; Sediment tracing; Sediment yield; Water quality; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; FOREST; LEAD; PHOSPHORUS; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL; TRACER; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 67651124835     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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