Linking catchment structural units (CSUs) with water quality: implications for ambient monitoring network design and data interpretation

Highlights

• New geospatial method to optimize water monitoring programs or design new networks.

• Catchment Structural Units (CSU) quantify key landuse/landcover, geology, wetlands, slope values.

• CSU statistical analyses reveals monitoring program representativeness of a region.

• The CSU method leverages key structural drivers that impact water quality.

• Specific CSU sets shows disproportionate impact on major ion and metal levels.

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Short Name of Publication	Linking catchment structural units with water quality: implications for ambient monitoring networks
Deliverable Type	Journal Article
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Program Type	Provincial
Author	Orwin, J.F., Klotz, F., Taube, N., Kerr, J.G., and Laceby, J.P.
Periodical Title	Journal of Environmental Management
Year of Publication	2022
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Month of Publication	March
Periodical Volumes	312
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114881
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