Agricultural Land Use Effects on Sediment Loading and Fish Assemblages in Two Minnesota (USA) Watersheds

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-105

  Zimmerman, Julie K H ^a   Vondracek, Bruce ^a   Westra, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land use; Streams; Suspended sediment; Trout; Warmwater fish

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; EROSION; LAND USE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

SEDIMENT LOADING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; FISH; LAND USE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINNESOTA; PESTICIDES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

RIPARIA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0142094716     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-2989-3     Document Type: Article

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