Linking in-stream nutrient flux to land use and inter-annual hydrological variability at the watershed scale

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 440, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-81

  Aguilera, Rosana ^a   Marcé, Rafael ^a   Sabater, Sergi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Land uses; Mediterranean; Modeling; Nutrients; Watershed scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; EXTREME EVENTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST AND GRASSLAND; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABILITY; IN-STREAM PROCESS; INTERANNUAL; LAND-COVER TYPES; MEDITERRANEAN; MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS; MODELING TOOL; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; NUTRIENT FLUXES; NUTRIENT LOADS; NUTRIENT POLLUTION; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; NUTRIENT TRANSPORT; PHOSPHATE LOADS; RIVER NETWORK; STATISTICAL MODELS; WATERBODIES; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MODELS; RIVER POLLUTION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENTS;

NITRATE; PHOSPHATE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT LOADING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPATIALLY REFERENCED REGRESSION ON WATERSHED ATTRIBUTES MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84868707109     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.030     Document Type: Article

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