Land use/land cover water quality nexus: quantifying anthropogenic influences on surface water quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Wilson, Cyril O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic drivers; Chippewa river watershed; Land use land cover change; Surface water quality; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RIVER WATERSHEDS; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES; WISCONSIN;

SURFACE WATERS;

PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIVER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WISCONSIN;

CHIPPEWA RIVER; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84931271269     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4666-4     Document Type: Article

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