Adjustment of prairie pothole streams to land-use, drainage and climate changes and consequences for turbidity impairment

River Research and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1609-1619

  Lenhart, C F ^a   Verry, E S ^b   Brooks, K N ^a   Magner, J A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Ellen River Partners Inc   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel evolution; Channelization; Minnesota River basin; Prairie pothole region; Suspended sediment; Total maximum daily load; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CHANNELIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LAND USE CHANGE; PRAIRIE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY;

MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ULMUS;

EID: 84871398355     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1549     Document Type: Article

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