Assessing the impacts of watershed indexes and precipitation on spatial in-stream E. coli concentrations

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 23, Issue , 2012, Pages 641-652

  Pandey, Pramod K ^a   Soupir, Michelle L ^a   Haddad, Monica ^b   Rothwell, James J ^c  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

In stream E. coli concentrations; Nonpoint pollution; Rainfall; Watershed indexes; Watershed scale modeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BARREN LAND; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; E. COLI; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODEL SKILL; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; NONPOINT POLLUTIONS; SAMPLING LOCATION; SAMPLING PERIOD; SPATIAL LOCATION; STREAM CORRIDORS; WATER QUALITY DATA; WATER SAMPLES; WATERBODIES; WATERSHED SCALE; WATERSHED SCALE MODELING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANURES; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INDEX METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

IOWA; SQUAW CREEK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84862262424     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.05.023     Document Type: Article

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