Statistical and spatial analysis of land cover impact on selected metro vancouver, British Columbia watersheds

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-31

  Shupe, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Historical land cover; Impact on water quality; Metro Vancouver; Spatial analysis; Statistical correlation; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DATA RESOLUTIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LOWER RESOLUTION; METRO VANCOUVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; STREAM HEALTH; TIME FRAME; VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA; WATER QUALITY DATA;

LAND USE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; URBANIZATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 84871814072     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9955-x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Allan JD (2004) Landscapes and riverscapes: the influence of land use on stream ecosystems. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 35:257-284
2. Barton K (1978) The other water pollution. Environment 20(5):12-20
3. Bull J (2003) Status of water quality conditions in the Little Campbell, Serpentine, and Nicomekl Rivers from 1971 to 2002. Ministry of Environment, Victoria
4. Carpenter SR, Caraco NF, Correll DL, Howarth RW, Sharpley AN, Smith VH (1998) Nonpoint pollution of surface waters with phosphorus and nitrogen. Ecol Appl 8:559-568
5. Erdas (2010) Erdas Imagine, Version 10.1. Erdas Inc., Norcross, GA
6. GeoBC (2010) Data distribution service. https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/dwds/ home.so. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
7. Goetz S, Fiske G (2008) Linking the diversity and abundance of stream biota to landscapes in the mid-Atlantic USA. Remote Sens Environ 112:4075-4085
8. Google Maps (2010) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Metro+Vancouver,+BC, +Canada&hl=en&sll=49.064419,-122.33345&sspn=0.338771,0. 948257&oq=mertro+vancouver,+BC,+Canada&t=h&hnear= Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia,+Canada&z=10. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
9. Gove NE, Edwards RT, Conquest LL (2001) Effects of scale on land use and water quality relationships: a longitudinal basin-wide perspective. J Am Water Resour Assoc 37:1721-1734
10. Government of Canada (2000) Canadian Digital Elevation Data, Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Centre for Topographic Information. http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/find.do?produit=cded. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
11. Government of Canada (2002) Canada land use monitoring program (CLUMP) urban land use-1966 to 1986. Government of Canada, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa. http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/collection/detail.do?id= B27C3DC5-78C3-B980-0D13-F3A19F0181D4. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
12. Government of Canada (2007) National Hydro Network, Canada, Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Mapping Information Branch, Centre for Topographic Information. http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/ data/nhn/index.html. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
13. Government of Canada (2009) Land Cover, circa 2000-Vector (LCC2000-V), Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Centre for Topographic Information. http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/landcover/ index.html. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
14. Haygarth P, Jarvis S (eds) (2002) Agriculture, hydrology and water quality. Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Okehampton
15. Herlihy AT, Stoddard JL, Burch Johnson C (1998) The relationship between stream chemistry and watershed land cover data in the mid-Atlantic region. US Water Air Soil Pollut 105:377-386
16. IBM SPSS (2010) IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 19.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp
17. Jones KB, Neale AC, Nash MS, Van Remortal RDV, Wickham JD, Riitters KH, O'Neill RV (2001) Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: a multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region. Landsc Ecol 16:301-312
18. King RS, Baker ME, Whigham DF, Weller DE, Jordan TE, Kazyak PF et al (2005) Spatial considerations for linking watersheds land cover to ecological indicators in streams. Ecol Appl 15:137-153
19. Lawson EM, Mitchell GB, Walton DG (1985) Stormwater monitoring in an industrial catchment basin located in Burnaby, British Columbia. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Technical Report. http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eirs/finishDownloadDocument.do;jsessionid= 762f75af0b9aca35fac87d1013ef2e3c492ee96323d0be489c11b0ef5852a8e5. e3uMah8KbhmLe34MbxaTchqMah90n6jAmljGr5XDqQLvpAe?subdocumentId=4033
20. Maloney KO, Weler DE (2011) Anthropogenic disturbance and streams: land use and land-use change affect stream ecosystems via multiple pathways. Freshw Biol 56:611-626
21. Metro Vancouver (2010) FAQs. http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/Pages/ faqs.aspx. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
22. MOE (2010) Lower Mainland Region EPD water quality data: listed by Watershed. http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/epd/regions/lower-mainland/water-quality/wq- data/index.htm. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
23. NRC (National Research Council) (2001) Grand challenges in environmental sciences. National Academies Press, Washington, DC
24. Paul MJ, Meyer JL (2001) Streams in the urban landscape. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 32:333-365
25. Phippen B (2008) Water quality in British Columbia: objectives attainment in 2006. Ministry of Environment, Victoria
26. Swain L (1983) Stormwater monitoring of a residential catchment area. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Technical Report, Vancouver
27. USGS (2010) USGS Global Visualization Viewer. http://glovis.usgs.gov/. Accessed 15 Dec 2010
28. Walsh CJ, Roy AH, Feminella JW, Cottingham PD, Groffman PM, Morgan RP (2005) The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure. J N Am Benthol Soc 24:706-723