Validation of a remote sensing based index of forest disturbance using streamwater nitrogen data

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 476-484

  Eshleman, Keith N ^a   McNeil, Brenden E ^b   Townsend, Philip A ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest disturbance; Nitrate; Remote sensing; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; FORESTRY; LEACHING; NITRATES; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

BASE CATIONS; BASE FLOWS; COMBINED EFFECTS; DISSOLVED NITROGENS; FOREST DISTURBANCE; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; LANDSAT IMAGERIES; LANDSCAPE SCALES; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; RECEIVING WATERS; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL SCALES; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; STREAM WATERS; SUBWATERSHEDS; SYNOPTIC WATERS;

RIVERS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BASEFLOW; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LANDSAT; LEACHING; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

DISSOLVING; FORESTRY; LEACHING; NITRATES; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749112086     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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