A rapid assessment of anthropogenic disturbances in East African wetlands

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 684-692

  Beuel, Sonja ^a   Alvarez, Miguel ^a   Amler, Esther ^a   Behn, Kai ^a   Kotze, Donovan ^b   Kreye, Christine ^a,d   Leemhuis, Constanze ^a   Wagner, Katrin ^c   Willy, Daniel Kyalo ^a   Ziegler, Susanne ^a   Becker, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

East Africa; Flooding regime; Land use; Wetland health; Wetland monitoring

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEALTH; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; EAST AFRICA; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FLOODPLAIN WETLANDS; FRESHWATER WETLANDS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY;

WETLANDS;

AGROCHEMICAL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLOODPLAIN; FRESHWATER; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

EAST AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84962460007     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.034     Document Type: Article

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