Establishing a tracer-based sediment budget to preserve wetlands in Mediterranean mountain agroecosystems (NE Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 496, Issue , 2014, Pages 132-143

  Navas, Ana ^a   López Vicente, Manuel ^a   Gaspar, Leticia ^b   Palazón, Leticia ^a   Quijano, Laura ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

137 Cs; Endorheic agroforestry catchment; GIS; Lake siltation; Sediment dating; Soil redistribution

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION RATES; EROSION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAKES; LAND USE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; AGROFORESTRY CATCHMENTS; GEOSTATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAINS; SEDIMENT DATING; SOIL REDISTRIBUTION; ^137CS;

SOILS;

CESIUM 137; CESIUM; LEAD; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISOTOPE TRACING; LAND USE; SEDIMENT; SILTATION; SOIL EROSION; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; SPAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TILLAGE; WETLAND; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAKE; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; SPAIN; WETLANDS;

EID: 84904751007     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.026     Document Type: Article

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