Good surface water quality is critical to human health and ecology. Land use determines the
surface water heat and material balance, which cause climate change and affect water …

Abstract Goal, Scope and Background Humans now strongly influence almost every major
aquatic ecosystem, and their activities have dramatically altered the fluxes of growth-limiting …

Initial understanding of the links between nutrients and aquatic productivity originated in
Europe in the early 1900s, and our knowledge base has expanded greatly during the past …

Les plantes aquatiques occupent une place importante dans différents écosystèmes d'eau
douce. Les auteurs passent en revue les influences naturelles et anthropogènes qui …

The influence of catchment characteristics on water quality varies with space and time.
Understanding the key factors influencing water quality is needed for effective land use and …

The condition of landscapes and the ecological communities within them is strongly related
to levels of human activity. Human-dominated land uses and especially the intensity of the …

Habitat destruction and fragmentation have been identified as possible causes of large-
scale amphibian declines. Here, we examine the effects of adjacent land use and water …

This study examined how changes in the composition of land use can affect wetland water
quality. Twenty-four wetlands located in Hiroshima prefecture in the western part of Japan …

Conversion of forested lands to agriculture or urban/residential areas has been associated
with declines in stream and lake water quality. Less attention has been paid to the effects of …

We collected water quality, land use, and aquatic macrophyte information from 62 coastal
and inland wetlands in the Great Lakes basin and found that species richness and …