Introduction to special issue on connectivity in water and sediment dynamics

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1275-1277

  Parsons, Anthony J ^a   Bracken, Louise ^b   Poeppl, Ronald E ^c   Wainwright, John ^b   Keesstra, Saskia D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Sediment; Water

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER;

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONNECTIVITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MODELLING STUDIES; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; RUNOFF AND SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84947866574     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3714     Document Type: Note

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