Interaction between urbanization and climate variability amplifies watershed nitrate export in Maryland

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 5872-5878

  Kaushal, Sujay S ^a   Groffman, Peter M ^b   Band, Lawrence E ^c   Shields, Catherine A ^c   Morgan, Raymond P ^a   Palmer, Margaret A ^a   Belt, Kenneth T ^d   Swan, Christopher M ^d   Findlay, Stuart E G ^b   Fisher, Gary T ^e  

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

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL STREAMS; AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; ANNUAL RUNOFF; BALTIMORE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; LAND USE CHANGES; NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; NITRATE-N; NITROGEN RETENTION; SMALL STREAMS; SMALL WATERSHEDS; TIME PERIODS; URBAN LAND-USE CHANGE; URBAN STREAMS; WATERSHED SCALE;

RIVERS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; RUNOFF;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; FORECASTING METHOD; HYPOXIA; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAM; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; FOREST; HYPOXIA; LAND USE; MONITORING; STREAM (RIVER); SUBURBAN AREA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

CITIES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MARYLAND; NITRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

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

EID: 49749092330     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800264f     Document Type: Article

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