Trees and Streets as Drivers of Urban Stormwater Nutrient Pollution

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 9569-9579

  Janke, Benjamin D ^a   Finlay, Jacques C ^a   Hobbie, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

MANAGEMENT GOALS; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT POLLUTION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RUNOFF REDUCTION; URBAN STORMWATER; URBAN SURFACE WATERS;

WATER POLLUTION;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; STORM WATER; SURFACE WATER; RAIN;

EUTROPHICATION; INTERCEPTION; LEAF LITTER; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER; TREE; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; LEAF LITTER; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; RUNOFF; TREE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; SAINT PAUL; UNITED STATES;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RAIN; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 85028960905     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02225     Document Type: Article

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