Hydrology and water quality of a field and riparian buffer adjacent to a mangrove wetland in Jobos Bay watershed, Puerto Rico

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 60-68

  Williams, C O ^c   Lowrance, R ^a   Bosch, D D ^a   Williams, J R ^b   Benham, E ^c   Dieppa, A ^d   Hubbard, R ^a   Mas, E ^c   Potter, T ^a   Sotomayor, D ^e   Steglich, E M ^b   Strickland, T ^a   Williams, R G ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST WATERSHED RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

^d Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

APEX; Hydrology; Mangrove wetlands; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; REMM; Riparian buffers; Sediment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL POLICIES; APEX; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; DEPTH TO WATER TABLES; REMM; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT MODELS;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

WETLANDS;

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGY; MANGROVE; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84878525345     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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