Assessment of land cover changes and water quality changes in the Zayandehroud River Basin between 1997-2008

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 10511-10519

  Bateni, Fatemeh ^a   Fakheran, Sima ^a   Soffianian, Alireza ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bare land; Land cover change; Landscape metrics; Rangeland; Water quality; Zayandeh Roud Basin

Indexed keywords

BARE LANDS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE METRICS; RANGELAND; ZAYANDEH ROUD BASIN;

FORESTRY; RIVERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER QUALITY;

NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; SURFACE WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RANGELAND; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BARE LAND; DEGRADATION KINETICS; EDGE DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IRAN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LARGEST PATCH INDEX; PERCENTAGE OF LANDSCAPE; RANGELAND; RIVER BASIN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; TOTAL EDGE; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; RIVERS; TREES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

FORESTRY; LAND USE; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SHEDS; WATER SUPPLY;

IRAN; ZAYANDEH BASIN;

EID: 84890129976     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3348-3     Document Type: Article

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