Regional and Temporal Differences in Nitrate Trends Discerned from Long-Term Water Quality Monitoring Data

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1394-1407

  Stets, E G ^a   Kelly, V J ^a   Crawford, C G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Land use land cover change; Monitoring; Nutrients; Rivers streams; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EUTROPHICATION; LAND USE; MONITORING; NITRATES; NUTRIENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; CONCENTRATION PATTERNS; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; RIVERS/STREAMS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942579069     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12321     Document Type: Article

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