Spatiotemporal variations of surface water quality in a medium-sized river catchment (Northwestern Germany) with agricultural and urban land use over a five-year period with extremely dry summers

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 818; p. 151730
• Main Authors: Buss, Johanna, Achten, Christine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 20.04.2022
• Subjects: agricultural land; Agriculture; base flow; chlorides; Climate change; Ecosystem; ecosystems; environment; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Germany; High-resolution monitoring; hydrochemistry; infrastructure; intensive farming; isotope labeling; land use; municipal wastewater; nitrates; Non-point sources; potassium; residential areas; rivers; Rivers - chemistry; runoff; Seasons; sodium; Spatiotemporal variation; spring; Stable isotope analysis; summer; surface water; wastewater treatment; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Quality; watersheds; winter; Germany; High-resolution monitoring; Stable isotope analysis; Spatiotemporal variation; Climate change; Non-point sources

Medium-sized rivers, which are used for intensive agriculture and urban infrastructure, are subject to manifold hydrochemical stressors. Identifying and monitoring these stressors is important for river basin management and a functioning ecosystem. To understand the spatiotemporal variation of surfa...