Water Quality
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- Assessing Ecological Integrity of Ozark Rivers to Determine Suitability for Protective Status. Radwell, Andrea; Kwak, Thomas // Environmental Management;Jun2005, Vol. 35 Issue 6, p799
Preservation of extraordinary natural resources, protection of water quality, and restoration of impaired waters require a strategy to identify and protect least-disturbed streams and rivers. We applied two objective, quantitative methods to determine stream ecological integrity of headwater...
- Precision riparian buffers for the control of nonpoint source pollutant loading into surface water: A review. Polyakov, Viktor; Fares, Ali; Ryder, Micah H // Environmental Reviews;Sep2005, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p129
Numerous studies have shown the effectiveness of riparian buffers in reducing sediment, pathogen, and nutrient loads into surface and groundwater in agricultural catchments. Reported retention rates of sediment, N, and P were as high as 97%, 85%, and 84%, respectively. Often, however, riparian...
- Causal Connections between Water Quality and Land Use in a Rural Tropical Island Watershed. Ragosta, Guy; Evensen, Carl; Atwill, E.; Walker, Mark; Ticktin, Tamara; Asquith, Adam; Tate, Kenneth // EcoHealth;Mar2010, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p105
We examined associations between riparian canopy cover, presence or absence of cattle, rainfall, solar radiation, month of year, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, salinity, and Enterococcus concentrations in riparian surface soils with Enterococcus geometric mean in-stream water concentrations at...
- AVALIA��O DA QUALIDADE ECOL�GICA DE RIOS: MACR�FITOS E VEGETA��O RIBEIRINHA. Aguiar, Francisca C. F.; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Rodr�guez-Gonz�lez, Patricia; Albuquerque, Ant�nio // Recursos H�dricos;Sep2009, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p37
The macrophytes are recognized as a quality element by the Water Framework Directive (WFD; EU/2000/60, Annex V) for the bioassessment and monitoring of ecological quality of surface waters bodies. The present study resumes the methods developed for the assessment and monitoring of the ecological...
- The Effect of Nutrient Enrichment of Either the Bank or the Surface Water on Shoreline Vegetation and Decomposition. Sarneel, J.; Geurts, J.; Beltman, B.; Lamers, L.; Nijzink, M.; Soons, M.; Verhoeven, J. // Ecosystems;Dec2010, Vol. 13 Issue 8, p1275
Riparian ecosystems can harbor great diversity and provide important ecological functions such as improving water quality. The impact of eutrophication on riparian ecosystems, however, is unclear. We conducted a mesocosm experiment to study the effects of nutrient loading on riparian ecosystems....
- The importance of shading by riparian vegetation and wetlands in fish survival in stagnant water holes, Great Ruaha River, Tanzania. Epaphras, Alex; Gereta, Emmanuel; Lejora, Inyasi; Mtahiko, Mtango // Wetlands Ecology & Management;Jul2007, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p329
Mass fish mortality occurred in November 2006 in a water hole in the Great Ruaha River, Ruaha National Park, and was due to the lack of shade by riparian vegetation or fringing wetlands. Nearby water holes with shade or fringing wetlands suffered no fish mortality. Despite being vulnerable to...
- Development of a Bird Integrity Index: Measuring Avian Response to Disturbance in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, USA. Bryce, Sandra A. // Environmental Management;Sep2006, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p470
The Bird Integrity Index (BII) presented here uses bird assemblage information to assess human impacts to 28 stream reaches in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Eighty-one candidate metrics were extracted from bird survey data for testing. The metrics represented aspects of bird taxonomic...
- Prioritizing Riparian Corridors for Water Quality Protection in Urbanizing Watersheds. Atkinson, Samuel F.; Hunter, Bruce A.; English, April R. // Journal of Water Resource & Protection;Jul2010, Vol. 2 Issue 7, p675
The cumulative effects of urbanization on riparian corridors can decrease the quality of water entering local streams, and ultimately adversely impact drinking water reservoirs of local municipalities. As such, a GIS and remote sensing based analysis tool called the Water Quality Corridor...
- Learning about restoration of urban ecosystems: a case study integrating public participation, stormwater management, and ecological research. Herringshaw, Cassie; Thompson, Janette; Stewart, Timothy // Urban Ecosystems;Dec2010, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p535
Restoration of ecosystem functions in urban environments is made challenging by 1) a public that often lacks understanding of ecological principles, 2) inadequate evidence of the effectiveness of restoration practices, and 3) difficulty integrating social and biophysical factors in studies of...
