Direct connectivity between upstream and downstream promotes rapid response of lower coastal-plain rivers to land-use change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Mattheus, Christopher R ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   McKee, Brent A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; COASTAL PLAIN; FLOOD PLAINS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; HIGH CONNECTIVITY; IN-CORE; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EROSION; NEWPORT; RAPID RESPONSE; SEDIMENT-ROUTING; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TIME LAG;

CESIUM; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LEAD; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COASTAL PLAIN; CONNECTIVITY; DELTA; DISCHARGE; EROSION RATE; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILVICULTURE; WATERSHED;

NEWPORT RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72149105316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039995     Document Type: Article

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