evaluation of sediment yield in watershed scale is considered so important for implementation of soil conservation, watershed management, environment, dam construction and water resource management. using empirical model is one of the approaches of evaluating sediment yield. this research in kasilian watershed evaluates sediment yield by using geomorphology method and epm model with arc view gi...

A quantitative understanding of both natural and anthropogenic sediment sources is needed to accurately assess and predict the potentially adverse effects of land development on aquatic ecosystems. The main objective of this study was to quantify sediment production and delivery rates in a dry tropical environment on the island of St. John in the eastern Caribbean. One to three years of measure...

detachment, and sediment deposition are considered simultaneously. This approach has received experimenTwo modeling frameworks have been developed to describe and tal support (Proffitt et al., 1991; Proffitt et al., 1993; predict soil erosion and sediment deposition in recent years. The first Huang et al., 1999; Heilig et al., 2001), and lays the is based on the concept of transport capacity. D...

Sediment loads have long been known to be deleterious to corals, but the effects of turbidity and settling particles have not previously been partitioned. This study provides a novel approach using inert silicon carbide powder to partition and quantify the mechanical effects of sediment settling versus reduced light under a chronically high sedimentary regime on two turbid water corals commonly...

Information on soil erosion and sediment yields is very limited in the immediate vicinity of the Three Gorges Project Ž . TGP , although the inceptisols developed on Triassic shales and sandstones in this area are known to be highly susceptible Ž . to erosion. Estimated sediment yields for a small reservoir catchment Yiwanshui in Changshou County, downstream of Ž y2 y1. Chongqing, are high arou...

Vegetative filters (VF) are used to remove sediment and other pollutants from overland flow. When modeling the hydrology of VF, it is often assumed that overland flow is planar, but our research indicates that it can be two-dimensional with converging and diverging pathways. Our hypothesis is that flow convergence will negatively influence the sediment trapping capability of VF. The objectives ...

Mineralization of a readily biodegradable aromatic compound (benzoate) by intrinsic microorganisms in the anoxic sediment was used to quantify the inhibitory effect of heavily contaminated sediment from the Arthur Kill estuary (NY/NJ Harbor system, USA) on the anaerobic metabolism by naturally present bacterial populations. In anoxic microcosms, the effect of varying ratios of contaminated sedi...