Headwater influences on downstream water quality

Environmental Management

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-377

  Dodds, Walter K ^a   Oakes, Robert M ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Headwater streams; Nonpoint source pollution; Riparian zones; Water quality; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

ECOREGIONS; SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER QUALITY;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HEADWATER; LAND COVER; LAND USE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ECOLOGY; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KANSAS;

EID: 39149095291     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-007-9033-y     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Alexander RB, Smith RA, Schwarz GE (2000) Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico. Nature 403:758-761
2. Allan JD, Erickson DL, Fay J (1997) The influence of catchment land use on stream integrity across multiple spatial scales. Freshwater Biol 37:149-161
3. Anderson JR, Hardy EE, Roach JT, Witmer RE (1976) A land use and land cover classification system for use with remote sensor data. Geological Survey Professional Paper 964. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
4. APHA (1992) Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 18th ed. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Pollution Control Federation, Washington, DC
5. Brown DD, Brown TC (1994) An evaluation of land classification systems for large-scale water quality assessments. In: Effects of human-induced changes on hydrologic systems. Proceedings of the AWRA 1994 Annual Summer Symposium, AWRA Technical Publication Series TPS-94-3. American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA
6. Carpenter SR, Caraco NF, Correll DL, Howarth RW, Sharpley AN, Smith VH (1998) Nonpoint pollution of surface waters with phosphorus and nitrogen. Ecol Appl 8:559-568
7. Dodds WK (2003) Misuse of inorganic N and soluble reactive P concentrations to indicate nutrient status of surface waters. J North Am Benthol Soc 22:171-181
8. Dodds WK (2006) Eutrophication and trophic state in rivers and streams. Limnol Oceanogr 51:671-680
9. Dodds WK, Oakes RM (2004) A technique for establishing reference nutrient concentrations across watersheds impacted by humans. Limnol Oceanogr Methods 2:333-341
10. Dodds WK, Welch EB (2000) Establishing nutrient criteria in streams. J North Am Benthol Soc 19:186-196
11. Dodds WK, Smith VH, Lohman K (2002) Nitrogen and phosphorus relationships to benthic algal biomass in temperate streams. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 59:865-874
12. Fausch KD, Bestgen KR (1997) Ecology of fishes indigenous to the central and southwestern Great Plains. In: Knopf FL, Samson FB (eds) Ecology and conservation of Great Plains vertebrates. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 131-166
13. Gregory SV, Swanson FJ, McKee WA, Cummins KW (1991) An ecosystem perspective of riparian zones. BioScience 41:540-550
14. Hill AR (1996) Nitrate removal in stream riparian zones. J Environ Qual 25:743-755
15. Horton RE (1945) Erosional development of streams and their drainage basins; hydrophysical approach to quantitative morphology. Bull Geol Soc Am 56:275-370
16. Hunsaker CT, Levine DA (1995) Hierarchical approaches to the study of water quality in rivers. BioScience 45:193-202
17. Johnson LB, Gage SH (1997) Landscape approaches to the analysis of aquatic ecosystems. Freshwater Biol 37:113-132
18. Johnson LB, Richards C, Host GE, Arthur JW (1997) Landscape influences on water chemistry in Midwestern stream ecosystems. Freshwater Biol 37:193-208
19. Jones KB, Neale AC, Nash MS, Van Remortel RD, Wickham JD, Ritters KH, O'Neill RV (2001) Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: a multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region. Landscape Ecol 16:301-312
20. Karr JR, Schlosser IJ (1978) Water resources and the land-water interface. Science 201:229-234
21. KARS (1993) Kansas land cover. Kansas Applied Remote Sensing, Lawrence
22. KDHE (2000) Stream chemistry monitoring program quality assurance management plan. Division of Environment, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka
23. Leopold LB, Wolman MG, Miller JP (1964) Fluvial processes in geomorphology. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco
24. Lowrance R, Altier LS, Newbold JD, Schnabel RR, Groffman PM, Denver JM, Correll DL, Gilliam JW, Robinson JL, Brinsfield RB, Staver KW, Lucas W, Todd AH (1997) Water quality functions of riparian forest buffers in Chesapeake Bay watersheds. Environ Manage 21:687-712
25. Maidment DR, ed (2002) Arc Hydro: GIS for water resources. ESRI Press, Redlands, CA
26. Novotny V, Olem H (1994) Water quality: prevention, identification, and management of diffuse pollution. John Wiley and Sons, New York
27. NRCS (2001) Riparian areas inventory. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Salina, KS
28. 15N experiments across a broad gradient of nitrate concentrations. Biogeochemistry 84:31-49
29. Omernik JM (1995) Ecoregions: a spatial framework for environmental management. In: Davis WS, Simon TP (eds) Biological assessment and criteria: tools for water resource planning and decision making. Lewis, Boca Raton, FL, pp 49-62
30. Osborne LL, Wiley MJ (1988) Empirical relationships between land use/cover and stream water quality in an agricultural watershed. J Environ Manage 26:9-27
31. Peterjohn WT, Correll DL (1984) Nutrient dynamics in an agricultural watershed: observations on the role of a riparian forest. Ecology 65:1466-1475
32. Peterson BJ, Wollheim WM, Mulholland PJ, Webster JR, Meyer JL, Tank JL, Marti E, Bowden WB, Valett HM, Hershey AE, McDowell WH, Dodds WK, Hamilton SK, Gregory S, Morrall DD (2001) Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams. Science 292:86-90
33. Rohm CM, Omernik JM, Woods AJ, Stoddard JL (2002) Regional characteristics of nutrient concentrations in streams and their applications to nutrient criteria development. J Am Water Resources Assoc 38:213-239
34. Sliva L, Williams D (2001) Buffer zone versus whole catchment approaches to studying land use impact on river water quality. Water Res 35:3462-3472
35. Strahler AN (1957) Quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology. Trans Am Geophys Union 38:913-920
36. U.S. EPA (1983) Methods for chemical analysis of water and waste. EPA 600/4-79-020. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EMSL-CIN, Cincinnati, OH
37. U.S. EPA (1998a) Level III ecoregions of the continental United States (revision of Omernik, 1987). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR
38. U.S. EPA (1998b) National strategy for the development of regional nutrient criteria. 822-R-98-002. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, Washington, DC
39. U.S. EPA (2000) National water quality assessment (305-B report). 841-R-02-001. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, Washington, DC
40. Wollheim WM, Peterson BJ, Deegan LA, Hobbie JE, Hooker B, Bowden WB, Edwardson KJ, Arscott DB, Hershey AE, Finlay J (2001) Influence of stream size on ammonium and suspended particulate nitrogen processing. Limnol Oceanogr 46:1-13