Trends of bulk precipitation and streamwater chemistry in a small mountainous watershed on the Shikoku Island of Japan

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 175, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 257-273

  Rahman, Abu Farah Md Anisur ^a   Hiura, Hiromasa ^a   Shino, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical process; Forest stream; Monotonic trend; Step trend; Thinning

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER POLLUTION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; FOREST STREAMS; MONOTONIC TREND; STEP TREND; THINNING;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; NITRATE; POTASSIUM ION;

FORESTRY; POLLUTION DETECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER POLLUTION;

ISLAND; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOREST; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PH; PRECIPITATION; RANK SUM TEST; SEASONAL KENDALL TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); TREND STUDY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

FORESTRY; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SHIKOKU;

EID: 33747149281     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9137-7     Document Type: Article

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