Relating landscape to stream nitrate-N levels in a coastal eastern-Atlantic watershed (Portugal)

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 693-706

  Teixeira, Zara ^a   Marques, João C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Land cover; Landscape metrics; Linear mixed effect model; Mondego; Nitrate N; River basin

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS; WATERSHEDS;

LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE METRICS; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; MONDEGO; NITRATE-N; RIVER BASINS;

NITRATES;

COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE; NITRATE; STREAM; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

MONDEGO BASIN; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84949633690     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.10.021     Document Type: Article

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