Relationships between watershed stressors and sediment contamination in Chesapeake Bay estuaries

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 307-319

  Comeleo, Randy L ^a   Paul, John F ^a   August, Peter V ^b   Copeland, Jane ^a   Baker, Carol ^b   Hale, Stephen S ^a   Latimer, Richard W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Environmental monitoring; Estuary; Land use; Nonpoint source pollution; Point source pollution; Pollutant loading; Sediment contamination; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE; POLLUTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATERSHED; WATERSHEDS;

USA, CHESAPEAKE BAY;

EID: 0030434930     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02059858     Document Type: Article

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