Understanding Variation in Water Quality using a Riverscape Perspective

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Understanding Variation in Water Quality using a Riverscape Perspective

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With the increasing degradation of rivers worldwide, an understanding of spatial and temporal patterns in freshwater quality is important. Water quality is highly variable in space and time, yet this is largely overlooked at the scale of stream catchments. I employed a landscape ecology approach to examine the spatial patterning of water quality in complex, impacted stream networks on the Canterbury Plains of the South Island of New Zealand, with the goal of understanding how land-use effects...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2010

Creator

Franklin, Hannah Mayford

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5197

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Water quality / Catchment / Landscape scale / Canterbury Plains / Spatial / Spatio-temporal / Nutrients / Groundwater / Ecosystem processes / Phosphorus / Nitrogen

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