Potential impacts of climate change on water quality and ecology in six UK Rivers

Hydrology Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 113-122

  Whitehead, P G ^a   Wade, A J ^b   Butterfield, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Nitrate phosphorus; Rivers; Sediments; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; NITRATES; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FLOW REGIMES; MACROPHYTES; MODELLING STUDIES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIPHYTE; FLOW MODELING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MACROPHYTE; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649817542     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2009.078     Document Type: Article

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