Scale-dependent effects of land cover on water physico-chemistry and diatom-based metrics in a major river system, the Adour-Garonne basin (South Western France)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 466-467, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-55

  Tudesque, Loïc ^a,b   Tisseuil, Clément ^a,b   Lek, Sovan ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Cascade effect; European Water Framework Directive; Redundancy analysis model; Spatial scale; Variance partitioning; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CASCADE EFFECTS; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL SCALE; VARIANCE PARTITIONING;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; REDUNDANCY; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

RIVER WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMONITORING; DIATOM; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SCALE EFFECT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; DIATOM; ECOLOGY; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; MONITORING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; WATER QUALITY; AGRICULTURE; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOUR BASIN; FRANCE; GARONNE BASIN; MIDI-PYRENEES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTA; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84880977851     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.107     Document Type: Article

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