Investigating the role of connectivity and scale in assessing the sources of sediment in an agricultural watershed in the Canadian prairies using sediment source fingerprinting

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1676-1691

  Koiter, Alexander J ^a   Lobb, David A ^b   Owens, Philip N ^c   Petticrew, Ellen L ^c   Tiessen, Kevin H D ^d   Li, Sheng ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e FREDERICTON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Connectivity; Scale; Sediment fingerprinting; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; DRAINAGE; ESCARPMENT; PRAIRIE; RADIONUCLIDE; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SHALE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TOPSOIL; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84887318448     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0762-7     Document Type: Article

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