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| Web URL(s): | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1011175013278
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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Jones, K. Bruce;
Neale, Anne C.;
Nash, Maliha S.;
Van Remortel, Rick D.;
Wickham, James D.;
Riitters, Kurt H.;
O'Neill, Robert V. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Jones, Neale, and Nash: US Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV; Van Remortel: Lockheed-Martin, Las Vegas, NV; Wickham: US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC; Riitters: US Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; O'Neill: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN |
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| Title: | Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: A multiple watershed study from the United States mid-Atlantic region |
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| Source: | Landscape Ecology. Vol. 16, No. 4, May 2001, p. 301-312. |
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| Publishing Information: | The Hague: SPB Academic Pub. |
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| # of Pages: | 12 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Nutrients; Sedimentation; Sediment control; Watersheds; Water resources; Health; Safety; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Nitrates; Ecosystems; Streams; Natural environment; Topography
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| Geographic Terms: | Mid-Atlantic United States |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "There has been an increasing interest in evaluating the relative condition or health of water resourced at regional and national scales. Of particular interest is an ability to identify those areas where surface and ground waters have the greatest potential for high levels of nutrient and sediment loadings. High levels of nutrient and sediment loadings can have adverse effects on both humans and aquatic ecosystems. We analyzed the ability of landscape metrics generated from readily available, spatial data to predict nutrient and sediment yield to streams in the Mid-Atlantic Region in the United States. We used landscape metric coverages generated from a previous assessment of the entire Mid-Atlantic Region, and a set of stream sample data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Landscape metrics consistently explained high amounts of variation in nitrogen yields to streams (65 to 86% of the total variation). They also explained 73 and 79% of the variability in dissolved phosphorus and suspended sediment. Although there were differences in the nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment models, the amount of agriculture, riparian forests, and atmospheric nitrate deposition (nitrogen only) consistently explained a high proportion of the variation in these models. Differences in the models also suggest potential differences in landscape-stream relationships between ecoregions or biophysical settings. The results of the study suggest that readily available, spatial data can be used to assess potential nutrient and sediment loadings to streams, but that it will be important to develop and test landscape models in different biophysical settings." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 39 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Jones, K. B., A. C. Neale, M. S. Nash, R. D. Van Remortel, J. D. Wickham, K. H. Riitters, et al. 2001. Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: A multiple watershed study from the United States mid-Atlantic region. Landscape Ecol. 16(4):p. 301-312. |
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