Identifying and linking source areas of flow and P transport in dairy-grazed headwater catchments, North Island, New Zealand

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 3689-3705

  Muller K ^a   Srinivasan, M S ^b   Trolove, M ^a   McDowell, R W ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Critical source areas; Infiltration excess runoff; Saturation excess runoff; Shallow groundwater; Sub surface flow

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL FLOW; BASEFLOWS; DISSOLVED REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; GROUND WATER TABLE; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; NEW ZEALAND; SATURATION-EXCESS RUNOFF; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOURCE AREA; STORM EVENTS; STORM FLOW; SUB-CATCHMENT; SUB-SURFACES; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TILE DRAINS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATER TABLE GRADIENT; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; COILED TUBING; EFFLUENTS; HYDRAULICS; LEACHING; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; STREAM FLOW; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS;

BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; EFFLUENT; GROUNDWATER; HEADWATER; HILLSLOPE; INFILTRATION; PHOSPHORUS; POND; RUNOFF; SATURATION; STREAMFLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TILE DRAIN; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 78649454372     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7809     Document Type: Article

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