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Abstract
Sediment budgets are an important tool for understanding how riverine ecosystems respond to perturbations. Changes in the quantity and grain-size distribution of sediment within river systems affect the channel morphology and related habitat resources. It is therefore important for resource managers to know if a channel reach is in a state of sediment accumulation, deficit or stasis. Many studies have estimated sediment loads from ungaged tributaries using regional sediment-yield equations or other similar techniques. While these approaches may be valid in regions where rainfall and geology are uniform over large areas, use of sediment-yield equations may lead to poor estimations of sediment loads in semi-arid climates, where rainfall events, contributing geology, and vegetation have large spatial variability.
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| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Inaccuracies in sediment budgets arising from estimations of tributary sediment inputs: an example from a monitoring network on the southern Colorado plateau |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Joint Federal Interagency Conference |
| Contributing office(s) | Southwest Biological Science Center |
| Description | 12 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Conference Paper |
| Conference Title | SEDHYD 2015 |
| Conference Location | Reno, Nevada |
| Conference Date | April 19-23, 2015 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| Other Geospatial | Upper Marble Canyon |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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