Sources and processes of contaminant loss from an intensively grazed catchment inferred from patterns in discharge and concentration of thirteen analytes using high intensity sampling

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 383, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 194-208

  Holz, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Faecal coliforms; Grazing nutrient loss; Hysteresis; Nitrate and phosphorus; Stream water quality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTE CONCENTRATION; ANALYTES; CONCENTRATION OF; CONTAMINANT LOADS; DAIRY CATTLES; E. COLI; FAECAL COLIFORMS; GRAZING NUTRIENT LOSS; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; HIGH INTENSITY; MOBILISATION; NUTRIENT LOSS; STREAM WATER QUALITY; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TEMPORAL SCALE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DAIRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYSTERESIS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; IMPURITIES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; SODIUM; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

CATCHMENT; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FECAL COLIFORM; GRAZING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYSTERESIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NITROGEN COMPOUND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POTASSIUM; RUNOFF; SAMPLE PREPARATION; STREAMWATER; SURFACE FLUX; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

BOS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77449092377     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.036     Document Type: Article

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