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rebecca.killalea@canberra.edu.au on 01 Mar 2022
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Study
- Citation
- Miguntanna, N. P., Goonetilleke, A., Egodowatta, P., & Kokot, S. (2010). Understanding nutrient build-up on urban road surfaces. Journal of Environmental Sciences.
- Study description
- This study investigates the build up of nutrients on urban road surfaces and details the relationship between particle size and nutrients.
Response
- Cause term/trajectory
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Land use/land cover - urban
(Change)
- Cause description
- Type of land use - industrial, residential, commercial
- Effect term/trajectory
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Sediment quality - other
(Change)
- Effect description
- Total solids load. This study found the total solids load collected from the road was different for different land uses. TS load on residential road surface was lowest and TS load on commercial road was highest.
- Response measure type
- Mean difference
- Response measure description
- Performed multivariate analysis. Didn't include test statistics. Have reported the trends from the paper.
Design
- Source data
- Field
- Study type
- Observation
- Study design
- Other
- Number of independent control or reference sampling units
- 3
- Sample size used in analysis
- 15
- Design description
- 3 different road surfaces sampled. Each sampled 5 times.
Context
- Climate
- Temperate
- Country
- Australia
- Habitat
- Artificial
- Spatial extent
- Other
- Temporal extent
- Snapshot
- Context description
- Spatial extent: small segments of road surfaces.