Effects of wildfire on river water quality and riverbed sediment phosphorus

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Son, Ji Hee ^a   Kim, Seongyun ^a   Carlson, Kenneth H ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Riverbed sediment; Sorption capacity; Water quality; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; FIRES; LOADING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTS; SORPTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

ORGANIC MATTER MASS; RIVER WATER QUALITY; RIVERBED SEDIMENTS; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SORPTION-DESORPTION CYCLES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WILDFIRE;

RIVERS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RIVER WATER; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER BED; RIVER WATER; SORPTION; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; PH; PRECIPITATION; RIVER; RIVERBANK; RIVERBED; SEDIMENT; SILT CLAY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923036990     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2269-2     Document Type: Article

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