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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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Sediment quality - other
- Cause description
- Particle size
- Effect term/trajectory
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Sediment quality - nutrients (nitrogen)
- Effect description
- Highest total nitrogen load is associated with the particle size 75 to 150 micrometres for all road surface types.
- 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.