The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source fingerprinting: a review

JP Laceby, O Evrard, HG Smith, WH Blake… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tracing sediments back to their catchment sources using biogeochemical and physical
fingerprints involves multiple assumptions. One of the most fundamental assumptions is that …

Fingerprinting and tracing the sources of soils and sediments: Earth and ocean science, geoarchaeological, forensic, and human health applications

PN Owens, WH Blake, L Gaspar, D Gateuille… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fine-grained sediment is perhaps the most widespread and pervasive contaminant in
aquatic systems reflecting its role in influencing the quality of the water (eg, turbidity, vector …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models

BC Stock, AL Jackson, EJ Ward, AC Parnell… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The ongoing evolution of tracer mixing models has resulted in a confusing array of software
tools that differ in terms of data inputs, model assumptions, and associated analytic products …

Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

AL Collins, M Blackwell, P Boeckx, CA Chivers… - Journal of Soils and …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose This review of sediment source fingerprinting assesses the current state-of-the-art,
remaining challenges and emerging themes. It combines inputs from international scientists …

Unifying error structures in commonly used biotracer mixing models

BC Stock, BX Semmens - Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mixing models are statistical tools that use biotracers to probabilistically estimate the
contribution of multiple sources to a mixture. These biotracers may include contaminants …

The behavioural characteristics of sediment properties and their implications for sediment fingerprinting as an approach for identifying sediment sources in river basins

AJ Koiter, PN Owens, EL Petticrew, DA Lobb - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Sediment fingerprinting is a technique that is increasingly being used to improve the
understanding of sediment dynamics within river basins. At present, one of the main …

Effects of agricultural land use on river biota: a meta-analysis

C Schürings, CK Feld, J Kail, D Hering - Environmental Sciences Europe, 2022 - Springer
Agriculture, the world's most dominant land use type, burdens freshwater biodiversity with a
multitude of stressors such as diffuse pollution and hydromorphological alteration. However …

The evolution of sediment source fingerprinting investigations in fluvial systems

DE Walling - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2013 - Springer
Purpose This contribution reviews the evolution of sediment source fingerprinting
investigations since the beginning of such studies in the mid-1970s. Attention is directed to …

[HTML][HTML] Sediment fingerprinting in agricultural catchments: a critical re-examination of source discrimination and data corrections

HG Smith, WH Blake - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Fine sediment source fingerprinting techniques have been widely applied in agricultural
river catchments. Successful source discrimination in agricultural environments depends on …

Sediment fingerprinting in fluvial systems: review of tracers, sediment sources and mixing models

A Haddadchi, DS Ryder, O Evrard, J Olley - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Suspended sediments in fluvial systems originate from a myriad of diffuse and point sources,
with the relative contribution from each source varying over time and space. The process of …