Can basin land use effects on physical characteristics of streams be determined at broad geographic scales?

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 495-510

  Goldstein, Robert M ^a   Carlisle, Daren M ^a   Meador, Michael R ^a   Short, Terry M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Habitat; Land use land cover; Riparian conditions; Rivers streams; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING; HABITAT; LAND COVER; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAMS;

RIVERS;

CORRELATION; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAM;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER BASIN; STREAM (RIVER); WATER QUALITY;

ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249909768     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9439-7     Document Type: Article

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