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Land Use Interactions Drive Southwestern Ontario Stream Nutrient Concentrations, Renee L. Lazor
Land Use Interactions Drive Southwestern Ontario Stream Nutrient Concentrations, Renee L. Lazor
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Human activities have transformed the landscape and altered natural habitats through intensive land uses including agriculture and urbanization. Identifying land use drivers of tributary nutrient concentrations and describing the magnitude and direction of their relationship are critical activities to improvement management of water quality in basins draining into the Great Lakes. The overarching goal of my thesis was to quantify the cumulative influence of spatial patterns in land use and land cover on variation of nutrient concentrations in tributaries of the Great Lakes. Biweekly water chemistry samples were collected in 29 streams located in southern Ontario between May and November, …