Assessing the Relationship Between Landscape Patterns and Nonpoint-Source Pollution in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Basin in China

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1162-1177

  Hao, Fanghua ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^a   Wang, Xiao ^b   Ouyang, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Best management practices; Computational methods; Landscape metrics; Nonpoint source pollution; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CULTIVATED LANDS; DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR; ECONOMIC CONDITION; FRAGSTATS; LAND USE/LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NPS POLLUTION; NUTRIENTS LOSS; ORGANIC NUTRIENTS; PADDY FIELDS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL LOSS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NUTRIENTS; RAIN; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOIL POLLUTION;

WATER POLLUTION;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT LOSS; ORDINATION; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RESERVOIR; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR;

EID: 84870496794     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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