Enhancing a landscape assessment with intensive data: A case study in the upper Juanita watershed

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 446-461

  Hychka, Kristen C ^a   Wardrop, Denice H ^a   Brooks, Robert P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Juniata River; Landscape; Monitoring multi level approach; Scale; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDEX METHOD; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATERSHED; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

JUNIATA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55949130286     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[446:EALAWI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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