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Conversion to drip irrigated agriculture may offset historic anthropogenic and wildfire contributions to sediment production

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Gray, A. B., Pasternack, G. B., Watson, E. B., Goñi, M. A., Hatten, J. A., and Warrick, J. A.

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This study is an investigation into the roles of wildfire and changing agricultural practices in controlling the inter-decadal scale trends of suspended sediment production from semi-arid mountainous rivers. In the test case, a decreasing trend in suspended sediment concentrations was found in the lower Salinas River, California between 1967 and...

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Bridges Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA H I G H L I G H T S G R A P H I C A L A B S T R A C T • Suspended
The effects of wildfire on the sediment yield of a coastal California watershed

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Warrick, J. A., Hatten, J. A., Pasternack, G. B., Gray, A. B., Goni, M. A., and Wheatcroft, R. A.

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The occurrence of two wildfires separated by 31 yr in the chaparral-dominated Arroyo Seco watershed (293 km²) of California provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the effects of wildfire on suspended-sediment yield. Here, we compile discharge and suspended-sediment sampling data from before and after the fires and show that the...

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intervals of sediment discharge can be estimated as 2s/√(N), where s is the standard error in the rating