Landscape ecological assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 94, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 39-53

  Weber, Ted ^a  

^a MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Conservation; Corridors; Ecoregions; Geographic information systems; Landscape assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; SEDIMENTS; STRESSES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

ECOREGIONS; HABITATS;

ECOLOGY;

RUNOFF;

COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION; ECOREGION; GIS; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GOVERNMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); STRESS; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DELAWARE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARYLAND; PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTEBRATES; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942443932     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000016878.15260.52     Document Type: Article

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