Nutrient baselines of Cerrado low-order streams: Comparing natural and impacted sites in Central Brazil

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-33

  Fonseca, Bárbara Medeiros ^a   De Mendonça Galvão, Luciana ^a   Padovesi Fonseca, Claudia ^b   De Abreu, Lucijane Monteiro ^b   Fernandes, Adriana Cristina Marinho ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Nutrients; Reference conditions; Savanna; Tropical limnology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; RAPID HABITAT ASSESSMENTS; REFERENCE CONDITION; SAVANNA; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; WATER QUALITY DETERIORATION;

ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONITORING; NITRATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

NUTRIENTS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIMNOLOGY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SAVANNA; STREAMWATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84891344933     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3351-8     Document Type: Article

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