Nonlinearity and threshold effects of landscape pattern on water quality in a rapidly urbanized headwater watershed in China

Investigating the relationship between landscape pattern and water quality is essential for making sustainable landscape development policies. A clear understanding of such relationship remains elusive partly due to ubiquitous nonlinearity, behind which the landscape threshold can potentially act as...

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Main Authors: Jianfeng Liu, Jijun Xu, Xiang Zhang, Zhiming Liang, Ke Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21000546