Hydrologic and Phosphorus Export Behavior of Small Streams in Commercial Poultry-Pasture Watersheds

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-385

  Romeis, J Joshua ^a   Jackson, C Rhett ^b   Risse, L Mark ^c   Sharpley, Andrew N ^a   Radcliffe, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practices; Nonpoint source pollution; Nutrients; Runoff; Sediment transport; Total maximum daily loading

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA SETS; DRAINAGE AREA; FIELD SCALE; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW REGIMES; FOREST COVER; GEORGIA; HEADWATER STREAM; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK FLOWS; RISK-BASED MANAGEMENTS; RIVER BASINS; SCREENING TOOL; SMALL STREAMS; SOIL TESTS; TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADING; UPPER ETOWAH; WATER QUALITY SAMPLING; WATER SAMPLES; WATERSHED-SCALE STUDIES;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; FLOW PATTERN; FOREST COVER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PASTURE; PEAK FLOW; PHOSPHORUS; POULTRY; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ETOWAH BASIN; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953063137     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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