Watershed land use effects on lake water quality in Denmark

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1187-1200

  Nielsen, Anders ^a,b   Trolle, Dennis ^a,b   Søndergaard, Martin ^a,b   Lauridsen, Torben L ^a,b   Bjerring, Rikke ^a   Olesen, Jørgen E ^a,b   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,b,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC)   (China)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Freshwater lakes; GIS analysis; Land use; Nonpoint pollution; Water quality; Watershed

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BUFFER ZONE; GIS; LAKE WATER; LAND USE CHANGE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAKE; TREE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAKES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DENMARK;

EID: 84863000126     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1831.1     Document Type: Article

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