Land Use and Stream Nitrogen Concentrations in Agricultural Watersheds Along the Central Coast of California

In coastal California nitrogen (N) in runoff from urban and agricultural land is suspected to impair surface water quality of creeks and rivers that discharge into the Monterey Bay Sanctuary. However, quantitative data on the impacts of land use activities on water quality are largely limited to unp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marc Los Huertos, Lowell E. Gentry, Carol Shennan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2001-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2001.315