Intensive water quality monitoring in a Taiwan bathing beach

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 463-468

  Hsu, Bing Mu ^a   Huang, Yu Li ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bathing beach; Enterococci; Fecal coliforms; Total coliforms

Indexed keywords

BATHING BEACH; ENTEROCOCCI; FECAL COLIFORMS; TOTAL COLIFORMS;

CONTAMINATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

RAIN;

BATHING WATER; BEACH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECAL COLIFORM; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECAL COLIFORM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWIMMING; TAIWAN; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BATHING BEACHES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 51649089162     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0009-4     Document Type: Article

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