Water quantity and quality at the urban-rural interface

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 29-48

  Sun, Ge ^a   Lockaby, B Graeme ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Biological materials; Carbon cycles; Chemical materials; Physical materials; Urban rural interface; Water balances; Water quantity; Watershed hydrologic cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101471309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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