Sediment production following severe wildfire and post-fire salvage logging in the Rocky Mountain headwaters of the Oldman River Basin, Alberta

Catena

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-197

  Silins, Uldis ^a   Stone, Micheal ^b   Emelko, Monica B ^b   Bladon, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Salvage logging; Sediment concentration; Sediment yield; Streamflow; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; HEADWATER; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONITORING; SALVAGING; SEDIMENT YIELD; STREAMFLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; OLDMAN BASIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77953127664     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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