Land-use change versus natural controls on stream water chemistry in the Subandean Amazon, Peru

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-495

  Lindell, L ^a   Astrom M ^a   Oberg T ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE GRADIENTS; AVERAGE ELEVATION; BED ROCKS; DIGITAL CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST COVER; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; LAND-USE CHANGE; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; ON-STREAM; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; SATELLITE IMAGES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; WATERSHED SCALE;

DEFORESTATION; DISSOLUTION; HYDRAULICS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); TRACE ELEMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

BEDROCK; BICARBONATE; CORRELATION; DEFORESTATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELEVATION; FOREST COVER; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; POTASSIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPOT; STREAM; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED;

DEFORESTATION; DISSOLVING; HYDRAULICS; LAND USE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER SHEDS;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 75849120395     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.12.013     Document Type: Article

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