Quantifying and predicting the water quality associated with land cover change: A case study of the Blesbok Spruit catchment, South Africa

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2946-2968

  du Plessis, Anja ^a,b   Harmse, Tertius ^a   Ahmed, Fethi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blesbok spruit catchment; Hydrological response; Land cover change; Predictions; Water quality

Indexed keywords

WATER QUALITY;

HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; SOUTH AFRICA;

FORECASTING;

HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BLESBOK SPRUIT BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA;

DAMALISCUS PYGARGUS PHILLIPSI;

EID: 84907512760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6102946     Document Type: Article

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