Quantifying suspended sediment flux in a mixed-land-use urbanizing watershed using a nested-scale study design

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 542, Issue , 2016, Pages 315-323

  Zeiger, Sean ^a   Hubbart, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropic impact; Erosion; Mississippi River Basin; Mixed land use; Urbanization; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; EROSION; FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPIC IMPACT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; MIXED LAND USE; MULTIPLE COMPARISON TEST; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

LAND USE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; DESIGN; EROSION; LAND USE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; FOREST; LAND USE; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945395719     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.096     Document Type: Article

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