Graphic showing landscape position and land use are controls on floodplain sediment and nutrient trapping (down arrow) and streambank erosion (arrow with dots)
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Landscape position and land use are controls on floodplain sediment and nutrient trapping (down arrow) and streambank erosion (arrow with dots). Floodplain trapping benefits are greatest in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Streambank erosion costs are highest in the Piedmont. Primary land use drivers are depicted as trees for forested areas, a tractor for agriculture, buildings for urban areas, and cattails for wetlands.
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