Effect of ditching operations on stream-water chemistry in a boreal forested catchment
Effect of ditching operations on stream-water chemistry in a boreal forested catchment
Aström, M.; Aaltonen, E.K.; Koivusaari, J.
Science of the Total Environment 279(1-3): 117-129
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-9697
PMID: 11712589
DOI: 10.1016/s0048-9697(01)00757-4
The effects of ditching of boreal forest (Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies and Fagus sp.) land on stream-water quality and quantity was assessed by comparing, over a 4-year-period, the physicochemical properties of the water in two small streams (western Finland), one whose catchment was ditched for forestry halfway through the sampling period and another nearby (control) stream whose catchment was not ditched ('paired catchment method').