Application of index number theory to the construction of a water quality index: Aggregated nutrient loadings related to the areal extent of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 162-168

  Whittaker, Gerald ^a   Barnhart, Bradley ^a   Färe, Rolf ^b   Grosskopf, Shawna ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance functions; Economic productivity; Eutrophication; Gulf hypoxia; Surface water quality

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; NUMBER THEORY; NUTRIENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY; GULF HYPOXIA; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODEL; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; HYPOXIA; INDEX METHOD; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; WATER QUALITY;

ATCHAFALAYA RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908419879     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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