Water quality of a tributary of the Pearl River, the Beijiang, Southern China: Implications from multivariate statistical analyses

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 172, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 589-603

  Song, Ming W ^a   Huang, Ping ^a   Li, Feng ^b   Zhang, Hui ^a   Xie, Kai Z ^c   Wang, Xi H ^d   He, Guo X ^e  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^d Jinan Engineering Vocational Technical College   (China)

^e Qingyuan Municipal Environment Protect Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Beijiang River; Multivariate linear regression of absolute principal component scores (MLR APCS); Principal component analysis (PCA); Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTIONS; BEIJIANG RIVERS; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL FACTORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; WATER QUALITY INFORMATION; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

RIVER WATER;

AGRICULTURE; CORRELATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER WATER; TRIBUTARY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; RURAL AREA; SEWAGE; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BEI RIVER; CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 85027928728     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1358-y     Document Type: Article

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