Developing indicators for regional water quality assessment: An example from British Columbia community watersheds

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-284

  Brown, Sandra ^a   Lavkulich, L M ^a   Schreier, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DATA SETS; DOMINANT RUNOFF PROCESS; FOREST COVER; KEY FACTORS; LAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; ROCK TYPES; SHORT TERM; STORM EVENTS; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER QUALITY INDICATORS; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS;

FORESTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATERS; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

CARBON; FORESTRY; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SHEDS;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 80054124459     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3603894     Document Type: Article

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