Relationships of surface water, pore water, and sediment chemistry in wetlands adjacent to Great Salt Lake, Utah, and potential impacts on plant community health

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 798-811

  Carling, Gregory T ^a,e   Richards, David C ^b   Hoven, Heidi ^c   Miller, Theron ^d   Fernandez, Diego P ^a   Rudd, Abigail ^a   Pazmino, Eddy ^a   Johnson, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b EcoAnalysts Incorporated   (United States)

^c The Institute for Watershed Sciences   (United States)

^d Jordan River/Farmington Bay Water Quality Council   (United States)

^e N243 Eyring Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic plant community health; Great Salt Lake; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Nutrients; Trace elements; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANTS; FIELD PARAMETERS; GEOCHEMICAL DISTINCTIONS; GREAT SALT LAKE; HIGH SALINITY; INVASIVE PLANTS; LOW SALINITY; MAJOR ELEMENTS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT SPECIES; POND CHEMISTRY; PORE WATERS; PORE-WATER CHEMISTRY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SAMPLING CAMPAIGNS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SHEETFLOWS; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; SURFACE-WATER CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; WETLAND PLANTS;

ANTIMONY; CADMIUM; COPPER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LEAD; LOADING; NUTRIENTS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER;

WETLANDS;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; METHYLMERCURY; PORE WATER; SELENIUM; SILVER; SURFACE WATER; TETRAHYDROGESTRINONE; THALLIUM; TIN; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM; WATER; ZINC;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NUTRIENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POREWATER; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SURFACE WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; WETLAND;

ALKALINITY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SALINITY; SALT LAKE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES INVASION; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PLANTS; QUALITY CONTROL; UTAH; WATER; WETLANDS;

GREAT SALT LAKE; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84870720969     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.063     Document Type: Article

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