Water quality of least-impaired lakes in eastern and southern Arkansas

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 168, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 363-383

  Justus, Billy ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lake; Least impaired; Nutrients; Oxbow; Reference; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAINS; AQUATIC BIOTA; BLACK WATER; ECOREGIONS; IRRIGATION WATERS; LEAST-IMPAIRED; LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MISSISSIPPI; MISSOURIS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; OXBOW LAKES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; QUALITY STANDARD; SHALLOW LAKES; TROPHIC STATE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FORESTRY; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

LAKES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHORUS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; FRESH WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOREGION; LAKE WATER; LIMNOLOGY; NITROGEN; OXBOW LAKE; PH; PHOSPHORUS; RESERVOIR; STANDARD (REFERENCE); TROPHIC STATUS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAKE; LIMNOLOGY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SWAMP; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ARKANSAS; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

ARKANSAS; KANSAS; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955430423     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1120-5     Document Type: Article

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