The variability of surface water quality indicators in relation to watercourse typology, Czech Republic

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3983-3999

  Langhammer, Jakub ^a   Hartvich, Filip ^a,b   Mattas, Daniel ^c   Rödlová, Sylva ^a   Zbořil, Aleš ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d T G MASARYK WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

GIS; Reference conditions; Surface water quality; Typology; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; CALCIUM CONTENT; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION SOURCES; REFERENCE CONDITION; TYPOLOGY; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION;

POLLUTION;

CALCIUM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; NITROGEN NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION AND POLLUTION RELATED PHENOMENA; RIVER BASIN; SAPROBITY INDEX OF MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM ORDER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER QUALITY INDICATOR; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERCOURSE TYPOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; LEGAL ASPECT; RIVER; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

CZECH REPUBLIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84863758695     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2238-9     Document Type: Article

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