Reducing sedimentation of depressional wetlands in agricultural landscapes

Wetlands

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 594-604

  Skagen, Susan K ^a   Melcher, Cynthia P ^a   Haukos, David A ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Grass buffer; Herbaceous buffer; Infiltration; Playa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BUFFER ZONE; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; GRASS; GUIDELINE; HERB; INFILTRATION; PLAYA; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

EID: 72449187319     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/07-84.1     Document Type: Article

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