Water Quality Conditions Associated with Cattle Grazing and Recreation on National Forest Lands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Roche, Leslie M ^a   Kromschroeder, Lea ^a   Atwill, Edward R ^a   Dahlgren, Randy A ^a   Tate, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; FOREST; GRAZING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; RANGELAND; RECREATION; SOIL POLLUTION; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CALIFORNIA; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FECES; HERBIVORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; RIVER; WEATHER;

BOS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CATTLE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FORESTS; HERBIVORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS; RECREATION; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER;

EID: 84879509732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068127     Document Type: Article

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