Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: A multi-scale analysis

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1151-1164

  Uriarte, María ^a   Yackulic, Charles B ^a   Lim, Yili ^a   Arce Nazario, Javier A ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT CAYEY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Agricultural abandonment; Forest transition; Puerto Rico; Urbanization; Watershed ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FECES; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTURE; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGROWTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TURBIDITY; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 80052822407     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9642-y     Document Type: Article

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