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USING 137CS MEASUREMENTS TO ESTABLISH CATCHMENT SEDIMENT BUDGETS AND EXPLORE SCALE EFFECTS. (Articolo in rivista)

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USING 137CS MEASUREMENTS TO ESTABLISH CATCHMENT SEDIMENT BUDGETS AND EXPLORE SCALE EFFECTS. (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

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2010-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)

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1 2 PORTO P. ; 1 WALLING D. E.; 3 CALLEGARI G. (2010)
USING 137CS MEASUREMENTS TO ESTABLISH CATCHMENT SEDIMENT BUDGETS AND EXPLORE SCALE EFFECTS.
in Hydrological processes (Print); John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester (Regno Unito)
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1 2 PORTO P. ; 1 WALLING D. E.; 3 CALLEGARI G. (literal)

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886 (literal)

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900 (literal)

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HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES Hydrol. Process. 25, 886-900 (2011) Published online 21 October 2010 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7874 Received 1 January 2010; Accepted 19 August 2010 Copyright ? 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (literal)

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1 Department of Geography--University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 2 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Forestali e Ambientali--Universit`a degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy 3 CNR--Istituto per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del Mediterraneo, Sezione Ecologia e Idrologia Forestale, Rende (CS), Italy (literal)

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USING 137CS MEASUREMENTS TO ESTABLISH CATCHMENT SEDIMENT BUDGETS AND EXPLORE SCALE EFFECTS. (literal)

Abstract

Growing awareness of the wider environmental significance of fine sediment transport by rivers and associated sediment problems linked to sediment-water quality interactions, nutrient and contaminant transfer, and the degradation of aquatic habitats has resulted in the need for an improved understanding of the mobilization and transfer of sediment in catchments to support the development of effective sediment management strategies. The sediment budget provides a key integrating concept for assembling information on the internal functioning of a catchment in terms of its sediment dynamics by providing information on the mobilization, transfer, storage and output of sediment. One key feature of a catchment sediment budget is the relationship between the sediment yield at the catchment outlet and rates of sediment mobilization and transfer within the catchment, which is commonly represented by the sediment delivery ratio. To date, most attempts to derive estimates of this ratio have been based on a comparison of the measured sediment yield from a catchment with an estimate of the erosion occurring within the catchment, derived from an erosion prediction procedure, such as the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) or its revised version, RUSLE. There is a need to obtain more direct and spatially distributed evidence of the erosion rates occurring within a catchment and to characterize the links between sediment mobilization, transfer, storage and output more explicitly. In this context, fallout radionuclides have proved particularly useful as sediment tracers. This paper reports the results of a study aimed at exploring the use of caesium-137 (137Cs) measurements to establish sediment budgets for three catchments of different sizes and contrasting land use located in Calabria, southern Italy. Long-term measurements of sediment output were available for the catchments, and, by using the estimates of gross and net rates of soil loss within the catchments provided by 137Cs measurements, it was possible to establish the key components of the sediment budget for each catchment. By documenting the sediment budgets of three catchments of different sizes, the study provides a basis for exploring the effects of scale on catchment sediment budgets and, in particular, the increasing importance of catchment storage as the size of the catchment increases. The results of this study demonstrate a reduction in the sediment delivery ratio from 98 to 2% as catchment area increases from 1Ð47 ha to 31Ð2 km2. Copyright ? 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (literal)

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