Hyporheic zone processes in a canalised agricultural stream: Implications for salmonid embryo survival

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 319-336

  Malcolm, I A ^a   Middlemas, C A ^a   Soulsby, C ^b   Middlemas, S J ^a   Youngson, A F ^c  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed roughness; Fine sediment loads; Groundwater; Optodes; Oxygen concentration; Reduced hydraulic conductivity; Surface waters

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BED ROUGHNESS; CANAL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; SALMONID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TRACER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ABERDEENSHIRE; GIRNOCK BURN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77957800535     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2010/0176-0319     Document Type: Article

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