Multi-scale landscape factors influencing stream water quality in the state of Oregon

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 156, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 343-360

  Nash, Maliha S ^a   Heggem, Daniel T ^a   Ebert, Donald ^a   Wade, Timothy G ^a   Hall, Robert K ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterococci; GPI; Grazing potential index; Logistic regression; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Oregon; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

ENTEROCOCCI; GPI; GRAZING POTENTIAL INDEX; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; OREGON;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LOGISTICS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SURFACE WATER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FECAL COLIFORM; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PATHOGEN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMWATER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORAGE; GEOGRAPHY; GRAZING; GRAZING POTENTIAL INDEX; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PLANT NUTRIENT; PREDICTION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NITROGEN; OREGON; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 68649089562     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0489-x     Document Type: Article

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