Meso-scale catchment sediment budgets: Combining field surveys and modeling in the Dragonja catchment, southwest Slovenia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1547-1561

  Keesstra, S D ^a   Bruijnzeel, L A ^a   van Huissteden, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bank erosion; Bedload; Hillslope erosion; Sediment budget; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; BEDLOAD; HILLSLOPE EROSION; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; LANDFORMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SURVEYS;

SEDIMENTS;

BANK EROSION; BEDLOAD; DRAINAGE BASIN; FIELD SURVEY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HILLSLOPE; LICHENOMETRY; MODELING; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

DRAGONJA BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349165934     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1846     Document Type: Article

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