GIS and ordination techniques for studying influence of watershed characteristics on river water quality

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 861-870

  Ou, Yang ^a   Wang, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Land use; Landscape; Redundancy analysis; Spatial scale; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ATTRIBUTES; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; MIYUN RESERVOIR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RAINY SEASONS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL SHIFTS; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM DENSITY; STREAM WATER QUALITY; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; SUBCATCHMENTS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; WATERSHED SCALE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CATCHMENTS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; PHOSPHORUS; REDUNDANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

AMMONIA; BUFFER; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RIVER WATER;

AMMONIUM; BUFFER ZONE; GIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITRATE; NITRITE; ORDINATION; PHOSPHORUS; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CHINA; CONDUCTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GRASS; LANDSCAPE; ORDINATION ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEASONS;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; MIYUN RESERVOIR;

EID: 80052057971     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.646     Document Type: Article

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