Urban Stream Deserts as a Consequence of Excess Stream Burial in Urban Watersheds

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 649-664

  Napieralski, Jacob ^a   Keeling, Ryan ^a   Dziekan, Mitchell ^a   Rhodes, Chad ^a   Kelly, Andrew ^a   Kobberstad, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

population; stream burial; stream network; urban landscape; urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DESERT; POPULATION GROWTH; STREAM CHANNEL; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

MICHIGAN; ROUGE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937815424     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1050753     Document Type: Article

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