A new approach to modeling the sediment retention service (InVEST 3.0): Case study of the Cape Fear catchment, North Carolina, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2015, Pages 166-177

  Hamel, Perrine ^a   Chaplin Kramer, Rebecca ^a   Sim, Sarah ^b   Mueller, Carina ^b  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; InVEST; Sediment retention; Sensitivity analysis; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; LAND USE; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERVICE INDUSTRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; INVEST; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR; SEDIMENT RETENTION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELING;

SEDIMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; MODELING; RETENTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

CAPE FEAR BASIN; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84927710283     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.027     Document Type: Article

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