Streamside forest buffer width needed to protect stream water quality, habitat, and organisms: A literature review

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 560-584

  Sweeney, Bernard W ^a   Newbold, J Denis ^a  

^a STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practices; Fish; Macroinvertebrates; Nitrate; Nonpoint source pollution; Nutrients; Riparian ecology; Rivers streams; Sediment; Streambank stability; Streamside forest buffer; Temperature; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

BANK PROTECTION; DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; FOREST BUFFER; MACROINVERTEBRATES; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIPARIAN ECOLOGY; RIVERS/STREAMS; STREAMBANK STABILITIES; WOODY DEBRIS;

FORESTRY;

BANK EROSION; BASIN MANAGEMENT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; FISH; FORESTED CATCHMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEANDER; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; WOODY DEBRIS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901766992     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12203     Document Type: Article

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