Impact of land use on water quality in the upper Nisa catchment in the Czech Republic and in Germany
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21110%2F17%3A00308185" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21110/17:00308185 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00027006:_____/17:00004192
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716324238" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716324238</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.221" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.221</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Impact of land use on water quality in the upper Nisa catchment in the Czech Republic and in Germany
Original language description
Land use is one of the important factors affecting the water quality in catchments. This study evaluates differences in water quality due to land use in the upper transboundary catchment of the river Nisa (694 km2) in the Czech-German-Polish triangle. Water samples collected weekly from the river and its tributaries at 29 sampling sites were analysed for a total of 25 parameters, including nutrients, major ions, major elements and traces of heavy metals. Each sampling site represents a sub catchment characterized by a specific composition of 8 land-use categories. Cluster analysis has been applied to divide the sub catchments into five land-use classes. When all measured parameters were taken into account, this statistical method resulted in six groups of sampling sites that are similar in their chemical water composition and that, at the same time, reflects the land use, regardless of sub-catchment size. Water quality was particularly affected by the portions of settlement areas and arable land. Sub catchments which were mainly forested (above 70%) show the smallest level of concentration for all monitored parameters (except Cd, Mn, SO4). Densely populated areas reduce water quality despite high proportions of forest.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10501 - Hydrology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Science of the Total Environment
ISSN
0048-9697
e-ISSN
1879-1026
Volume of the periodical
586
Issue of the periodical within the volume
February
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1316-1325
UT code for WoS article
000398758800128
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85011999936