Disappearing headwaters: Patterns of stream burial due to urbanization

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 308-312

  Elmore, Andrew J ^a   Kaushal, Sujay S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CATCHMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; STREAM; STREAM CHANNEL; URBANIZATION;

BALTIMORE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49049087525     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070101     Document Type: Article

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