The relative importance of road density and physical watershed features in determining coastal marsh water quality in georgian bay

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 456-467

  Decatanzaro, Rachel ^a   Cvetkovic, Maja ^a   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic stress; Geographic information system; Road density; Water quality; Watershed; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESS; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL MARSH; DOMINANT FACTOR; LANDSCAPE INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NATURAL VARIATION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NITRATE NITROGEN; ONTARIO; PARTIAL CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUALITY DATA; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; ROAD DENSITY; SPECIFIC CONDUCTIVITY; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; SYNOPTIC SURVEYS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATERSHED AREAS; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; WATERSHED FEATURES;

COASTAL ZONES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOSPHORUS; ROADS AND STREETS; STANDARDIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

WATERSHEDS;

FRESH WATER; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEDROCK; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; GIS; MARSH; ROAD; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COASTAL WATERS; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MARSH; SEASHORE; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

AUTOMOBILES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 68849093645     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9338-0     Document Type: Article

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