Managing pollutant inputs from pastoral dairy farming to maintain water quality of a lake in a high-rainfall catchment

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 447-459

  Wilcock, Robert J ^a   Monaghan, Ross M ^b   McDowell, Richard W ^b   Verburg, Piet ^a   Horrox, Jonny ^c   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^d,e   Duncan, Maurice J ^a   Rutherford, Alison ^b   Zemansky, Gil ^f   Scarsbrook, Mike R ^g   Wright Stow, Aslan E ^a   Howard Williams, Clive ^a   Cotton, Sue ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c West Coast Regional Council   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^f GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^g DAIRYNZ   (New Zealand)

^h not available   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

catchment yield; flood frequency; groundwater; nutrients; sediment.

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FECAL COLIFORM; FLOOD FREQUENCY; GROUNDWATER; LAKE WATER; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LOSS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PASTORALISM; PHOSPHORUS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMWATER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84877638541     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF12296     Document Type: Article

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