Where does land use matter most? – new paper in Sci. Tot. Env.
The lab is active in Tanzania in an inter university collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Institute for Science and Technology in Arusha. In one of the first papers of this project, Grite Nelson shows that studies of river quality and integrity should cautiously infer the influence of surrounding land use activities. Water quality and biota responded to land use at differentn scales. What is more, the spatial buffers used to calculate land use had a strong impact on the detected land use effects. The work stresses the need to standardize approaches to investigate effects of land use on different aspects of river quality.
The paper is out in the journal Science of the Total Environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896971934817X
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