The influence of historical forestry practices and climate on the sediment retention function of wetlands.

Impact of land use activities on sediment-associated contaminants; Quesnel River Basin, British Columbia.

“…It is also consistent w ith other research in the QRB (e.g. Caley, 2011), w hich has dem onstrated th at riparian zones and w etlands m ay play an im portant role in trapping sedim ent from forestry opera tion and reducing dow nstream fluxes to watercourses. It is also im portant to recognize that land use-associated suspended sedim ent fluxes are subject to tem poral delays betw een m obilization and transport at d o w n stream locations, such as Q2, due to hydrologic travel distance and barriers to deliv ery into and through the stream netw ork, and tem porary storage effects (on the channel bed, in bars etc).…”