Phosphorus release from forest harvesting on an upland blanket peat catchment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2241-2248

  Rodgers, Michael ^a   O'Connor, Mark ^a   Healy, Mark Gerard ^a   O'Driscoll, Connie ^a   Asam, Zaki Ul Zaman ^a   Nieminen, Mika ^b   Poole, Russell ^c   Müller, Markus ^a   Xiao, Liwen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Blanket peat forest; Buffer strip; Forest harvesting; Good management practice; Phosphorus release; Storm flow

Indexed keywords

BLANKET PEAT; BUFFER STRIP; FOREST HARVESTING; GOOD MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PHOSPHORUS RELEASE; STORM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; PEAT; PHOSPHORUS; PLANNING; RUNOFF; STORMS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

RIVERS;

BUFFER ZONE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; DISCHARGE; DRAINAGE; HARVESTING; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEARITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PEATLAND; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; STORM; STREAMFLOW;

CONCENTRATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; HYDRAULICS; PEAT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RELEASE; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION;

BURRISHOOLE RIVER; CONNACHT; COUNTY MAYO; IRELAND;

PINUS CONTORTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 78049317721     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.09.037     Document Type: Article

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