Land use, spatial scale, and stream systems: Lessons from an agricultural region

Environmental Management

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 775-791

  Vondracek, Bruce ^a   Blann, Kristen L ^b   Cox, Carson B ^c   Nerbonne, Julia Frost ^d   Mumford, Karen G ^e   Nerbonne, Brian A ^f   Sovell, Laurie A ^g   Zimmerman, Julie K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Sustainable Conservation ^*  (United States)

^c Sustainable Conservation   (United States)

^d Higher Educ Consortium Urban Aff   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^g MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Habitat; Macroinvertebrates; Riparian buffers; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

FISH; HABITAT; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RIPERIAN BUFFERS;

LAND USE;

HOT WATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SCALE EFFECT; STREAM CHANNEL;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CATCHMENT; COLD; DENSITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; LAND USE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; MINNESOTA; PLANTS; RIVERS; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE; PLANTS; WATER QUALITY;

PISCES;

EID: 27944489924     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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