Watershed vulnerability predictions for the ozarks using landscape models

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1769-1780

  Lopez, Ricardo D ^a   Nash, Maliha S ^a   Heggem, Daniel T ^a   Ebert, Donald W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CURVE FITTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NONMETALS; PHOSPHORUS; REMOTE SENSING; REUSABILITY; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CELL COUNTING; CLOSE PROXIMITY; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI BACTERIA; FORESTED AREAS; GULF OF MEXICO; HUMAN USE; KEY INDICATORS; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE MODEL; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MODEL RESULTS; PARTIAL-LEAST-SQUARES; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; TA MODELS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TP MODEL; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED MANAGERS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

AMMONIA; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL COUNT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; STREAM (RIVER); URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AMMONIA; ARKANSAS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MISSOURI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 51849102101     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0360     Document Type: Article

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