Multivariate analysis of water quality and physical characteristics of selected watersheds in Puerto Rico

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 829-839

  Santos Román, Déborah M ^a   Warner, Glenn S ^b   Scatena, Frederick ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Multivariate analysis; Puerto Rico; Water quality

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SODIUM; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS;

WATERSHEDS;

LAND USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0041857748     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04408.x     Document Type: Article

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