Post-fire changes in sediment rating curves in a wet Eucalyptus forest in SE Australia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 409, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 183-195

  Sheridan, Gary J ^a   Lane, Patrick N J ^a   Sherwin, Christopher B ^a   Noske, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Erodibility; Fire; Sediment transport; Water quality; Water repellence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED WATER; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL RAINFALL; AUSTRALIA; CHANNEL PROCESS; CONTROL STRUCTURE; DISCHARGE RATES; DRY SEASONS; ERODIBILITY; EROSION PROCESS; EROSION RATES; EUCALYPTUS FORESTS; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; IN-SITU; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOG-LOG SPACE; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; MAXIMUM VALUES; NATURAL LOGARITHMS; NON-LINEARITY; POST-FIRE; POWER LAW; REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT LOADS; SEDIMENT RATING CURVES; STAGE-DISCHARGE; STORM EVENTS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TURBIDITY MEASUREMENTS; VEGETATION RECOVERY; WATER REPELLENCE; WET SEASON;

ALGEBRA; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; FIRES; RATING; RECOVERY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL MECHANICS; STORMS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DICOTYLEDON; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERODIBILITY; FOREST FIRE; HILLSLOPE; RATING CURVE; RILL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 80054075532     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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