Relationships between landscape characteristics and nonpoint source pollutio2 inputs to coastal estuaries

Environmental Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 539-549

  Basnyat, Prakash ^a   Teeter, Lawrence D ^a   Flynn, Kathryn M ^a   Lockaby, B Graeme ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forested buffers; Geographic information system; Land use complex; Nonpoint source pollution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ESTUARIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL ESTUARIES; LANDSCAPE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

LAND USE;

NITRATE; RIVER WATER;

ESTUARY; LAND USE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ESTUARY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LANDSCAPING; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ALABAMA; FISH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032908016     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900208     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Andersen, B. W., and R. D. Ohmart. 1985. Riparian revegetation as a mitigating process in stream and river restoration. Pages 41-80. in J. Gore (ed.), The restoration of rivers and streams. Butterworth, Boston.
2. Basnyat, P., L. D. Teeter, K. M. Flynn, and B. G. Lockaby. 1996. Non-point source pollution and watershed land uses: A conceptual framework for modeling the management of non-point source pollution. Pages 103-109 in K. M. Flynn (ed.), Proceeding of southern forested wetlands ecology and management conference. Consortium for Research on Southern Forested Wetlands, Clemson, South Carolina.
3. Beck, J. M. 1995. Using GIS to evaluate potential critical non-point pollution sources in Alabama's Fish River watershed. MS thesis. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
4. Bosch, J. M., and J. D. Hewlett. 1982. A review of catchment experiments to determine the effect of vegetation changes on water yield and evapotranspiration. Journal of Hydrology 55:3-23.
5. Clark, J. 1977. Coastal ecosystem management. John Wiley, New York, 811 pp.
6. Craig, N. J., and E. Kuenzler. 1983. Land use, nutrient yield, and eutrophication in the Chowan River basin. Report no. 205. University of North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, Chapel Hill, NC.
7. Harvey, C. A., and D. A. Eash. 1996. Description of Basinsoft, a computer program to quantify drainage-basin characteristics. Proceedings of users conference 1996. ESRI Inc. (in Internet). http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/pro96/ TO 100/PAP072/P72.HTM.
8. Hem, J. D. 1985. Study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water. United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2254, Washington, DC.
9. Karr, J. R., and I. J. Schlosser. 1978. Water resources and the land-water interface. Science 201:229-234.
10. Lockaby, B. G., K. McNabb, and J. Hairston. 1993. Changes in groundwater nitrate levels along an agroforestry drainage continuum. In Proceeding of conference on riparian ecosystems in the humid US: Functions, values, and management. Atlanta, Georgia.
11. Milne, B. T. 1988. Measuring the fractal geometry of landscapes. Applied Mathematics and Computation 27:67-79.
12. Mohaupt, V. 1986. Nutrient-discharge relationships in a flatland river system and optimization of sampling. Pages 297-304 in Monitoring to detect changes in water quality series. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 157, Oxfordshire, UK.
13. Omernik, J. M. 1977. Non-point source-stream nutrient level relationships: A nationwide study. USEPA Ecological Research Series EPA-600/3-77-105. USEPA, Corvallis, Oregon.
14. Omernik, J. M., A. R. Abernathy, and L. M. Male. 1981. Stream nutrient levels and proximity of agricultural and forest land to streams: Some relationships. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 36:227-231.
15. O'Neill, R. A., J. R. Krummel, R. H. Gardner, G. Sugihara, B. Jackson, D. L. DeAngelis, B. T. Milne, M. G. Turner, B. Zygmunt, S. W. Christensen, V. H. Dale, and R. L. Graham. 1988. Indices of landscape pattern. Landscape Ecology 1(3): 153-162.
16. Osborne, L. L., and M. J. Wiley. 1988. Empirical relationships between land use/cover and stream water quality in an agricultural watershed. Journal of Environmental Management 26:9-27.
17. Perry, J., and E. Vanderklein. 1996. Water quality management of a natural resource. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
18. Peterjohn, W. T., and D. L. Correll. 1984. Nutrient dynamics in an agricultural watershed: Observations on the role of a riparian forest. Ecology 65:1466-1475.
19. Phillips, J. D. 1989a. Effects of buffer zones on estuarine and riparian land use in eastern North Carolina. Southeastern Geographer 29:136-149.
20. Phillips, J. D. 1989b. Evaluation of North Carolina's estuarine shoreline area of environmental concern from a water quality perspective. Coastal Management 17:103-117.
21. Schlosser, I. J., and J. R. Karr. 1981a. Riparian vegetation and channel morphology impact on spatial patterns of water quality in agricultural watersheds. Environmental Management 5:233-243.
22. Schlosser, I. J., and J. R. Karr. 1981b. Water quality in agricultural watersheds: Impact of riparian vegeration during baseflow. Water Resources Bulletin 17:233-240.
23. Sollins, P., C. C. Grier, F. M. McCorison, K. Cromack, Jr., R. Fogel, and R. L. Fredriksen. 1980. The internal element cycles of an old-growth Douglas-fir eco-system in western Oregon. Ecological Management 50:261-285.
24. Sokal, R. R., and F. J. Rohlf. 1995. Biometry. Freeman, New York.
25. Turner, M. G. 1989. Landscape ecology: The effect of pattern on process. Annual Review of Ecological Systems 20:171-197.
26. USDA Soil Conservation Service. 1980. Soil Survey of Mobile County, Alabama. USDA SCS, Washington, DC.
27. USDA Soil Conservation Service. 1990. Baldwin County, Alabama soil survey tables. USDA SCS, Washington, DC.
28. Viessman, W., Jr., and M. J. Hammer. 1993. Water supply and pollution control. Harper Collins College Publications, New York.