Reconstruction of a century of landscape modification and hydrologic change in a small urban watershed in Pittsburgh, PA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 413-424

  Hopkins, Kristina G ^a   Bain, Daniel J ^a   Copeland, Erin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy   (United States)

Author keywords

Impervious cover; Inter basin transfer; Land use change; Sewer infrastructure; Urban hydrology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEWER NETWORK; STREAMFLOW; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897664143     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9972-z     Document Type: Article

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