Stream water responses to timber harvest: Riparian buffer width effectiveness

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 979-988

  Clinton, Barton D ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Headwater streams; Riparian buffers; Southern Appalachians; Timber harvest

Indexed keywords

BASE CATIONS; BASEFLOWS; FOREST HARVEST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVEST LEVELS; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HEADWATER STREAM; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; POSTHARVEST; PRE-TREATMENT; REFERENCE SITES; RESIDUAL BASAL AREA; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; STORM FLOW; STREAM CHEMISTRY; STREAM SAMPLING; STREAM WATER; STREAM WATER QUALITY; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; TIMBER HARVEST; TIMBER HARVESTS; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS;

CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HYDRAULICS; TIMBER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HARVESTING; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE; NITRATE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOLUTE; STREAM; SUSPENDED LOAD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIMBER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; HYDRAULICS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 79551544526     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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