Impacts of urbanization on nutrient concentrations in small southeastern coastal streams

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 301-312

  Tufford, Daniel L ^a   Samarghitan, Carmen L ^b   McKellar Jr , Hank N ^a   Porter, Dwayne E ^a   Hussey, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PBS and J ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal streams; Nonpoint source pollution; Nutrients; Urbanization; Water quality; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; STREAM FLOW;

COASTAL WATERSHEDS;

WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; URBANIZATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038713272     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04385.x     Document Type: Article

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