Changes to sediment sources following wildfire in a forested upland catchment, southeastern Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2878-2889

  Smith, Hugh G ^a   Sheridan, Gary J ^a   Lane, Patrick N J ^a   Noske, Philip J ^a   Heijnis, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fallout radionuclides; Forest catchments; Sediment sources; Sediment tracing; Sediment yield; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FALLOUT RADIONUCLIDES; FOREST CATCHMENT; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENT TRACING; SEDIMENT YIELD; WILDFIRE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CESIUM; EROSION; FALLOUT; FIRES; FORESTRY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LANDFORMS; LEAD; RADIOISOTOPES; RESEARCH; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACES;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHANNEL FLOW; EROSION; FOREST FIRE; HILLSLOPE; LEAD ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; UPLAND REGION; WILDFIRE;

CESIUM; EROSION; FOREIGN TRADE; FOREST FIRES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80051576765     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8050     Document Type: Article

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