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Linking land use to water quality for effective water resource and ecosystem management

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The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resource management & Land management.

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Effects of land use and land cover changes on water quality in the uMngeni river catchment, South Africa

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the linkages between biophysico-chemical water quality parameters and land use and land cover (LULC) classes in the upper reaches of the uMngeni Catchment, a rapidly developing catchment in South Africa.
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Nutrient enrichment as a threat to the ecological resilience and health of South African microtidal estuaries

TL;DR: In this paper, the root cause of deteriorating water quality in South African estuaries was identified as rapid population grow-up and poor water quality. And they used a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework.
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Sensitivity analysis for water quality monitoring frequency in the application of a water quality index for the uMngeni River and its tributaries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

TL;DR: In this article, a 28-year time series of water quality data from 11 sampling stations was assessed for pH, electrical conductivity, temperature, turbidity, total suspended solids, Escherichia coli counts, NH 4-N, NO 3 -N, PO 4 -P and total phosphorus.
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Spatially Varying and Scale-Dependent Relationships of Land Use Types with Stream Water Quality.

TL;DR: This study investigated the relationship between land use types and water quality indicators at multiple spatial scales, namely, the watershed and riparian scales, using the ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models.

Effects of catchment management on physical river condition, chemistry, hydrogeomorphology and ecosystem service provision in small coastal rivers of the Western Cape

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a solution to solve the problem of the problem: this paper ] of unstructured data, i.i.d., i.e.,
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