The filtering capacity of a tropical riverine wetland: II. Sediment and nutrient balances

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-72

  Mcjannet, David ^a   Wallace, Jim ^a   Keen, Rex ^a   Hawdon, Aaron ^a   Kemei, Joseph ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Sediment and nutrient balance; Tropical; Wetland

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; DENITRIFICATION RATE; GROUNDWATER FLUXES; HYDRAULIC LOADING; LOSS MECHANISMS; NATURAL WETLAND; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NUTRIENT BALANCE; NUTRIENT LOADS; POINT SOURCES; QUALITY OF WATER; RESIDENCE TIME; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TROPICAL; TROPICAL REGIONS; WATER COLUMNS; WETLAND SOILS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; DEWATERING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TROPICS; WATER QUALITY;

WETLANDS;

DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL REGION; WATER COLUMN; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

EID: 84855191997     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8111     Document Type: Article

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