Wildfire Effects on Suspended Sediment Delivery Quantified Using Fallout Radionuclide Tracers in a Mediterranean Catchment

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1501-1512

  Estrany, Joan ^a   López Tarazón, José A ^b,c,d   Smith, Hugh G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fallout radionuclides; Mediterranean fluvial systems; sediment delivery processes; sediment source fingerprinting; wildfire

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COPYRIGHTS; FALLOUT; FIRES; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TRACERS;

FALLOUT RADIONUCLIDES; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT SOURCES; WILDFIRE;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; FALLOUT; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TRACER; WILDFIRE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NA BORGES BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84983065015     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2462     Document Type: Article

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