Quantitative generalizations for catchment sediment yield following forest logging

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8383-8402

  Bathurst, James C ^a   Iroumé, Andrés ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

best management practice; catchment management; environmental impact; forest logging; sediment yield prediction

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; LOGGING TECHNIQUES; PAIRED CATCHMENT STUDIES; RELATIVE RESPONSE FACTORS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SPECIFIC SEDIMENT YIELD;

CATCHMENTS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LOGGING (TIMBER); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT YIELD; STORM; TEMPERATE FOREST;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOGGING; SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84919663328     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015711     Document Type: Article

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