The landscape components threshold of stream water quality: A review

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5983-5993

  Liu, Zhenhuan ^a,b   Li, You ^b   Peng, Jian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Landscape component; Stream water quality; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOINDICATOR; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; NDVI; STATE ROLE; STREAM; SURFACE AREA; THEORETICAL STUDY; THRESHOLD; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION INDEX; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 79952720411     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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