Chloride Concentrations in Wetlands along a Rural to Urban Land Use Gradient

Wetlands

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-83

  Hill, Alan R ^a   Sadowski, Eva K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloride; Road salt; Urbanization; Water quality trends; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOTA; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; POTASSIUM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; URBANIZATION; WATER SUPPLY; WETLAND;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957845784     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-015-0717-4     Document Type: Article

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