Watershed land use controls on chemical inputs to lake Ontario embayments

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2084-2095

  Chen, Xiaoxia ^a   Driscoll, Charles T ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISCHARGE PATTERNS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GROWING SEASON; LAKE ONTARIO; LAND COVER; MAJOR ELEMENTS; NEW YORK; RIVER SITES; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBWATERSHEDS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATER SAMPLES; WATERSHED LANDS;

CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; LAKES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENTS;

CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; MAGNESIUM ION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; SULFATE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GROWING SEASON; LAKE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CONTENT; SOLUTE; SPRING; SUMMER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WINTER;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; NEW YORK; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEASONS; TREES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 69749123037     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0435     Document Type: Article

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