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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Linking Watershed Scales through Altered Waterways

  AUTHORS: Mason Johnson, Katherine Clancy

  KEYWORDS: Nested Hierarchy Theory, Altered Waterways, Landuse, Water Quality

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, Vol.8 No.10, August 31, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Nested hierarchy theory advances the idea that rivers have a fractal dimension where processes at the catchment scale (>1 km) control processes at the reach or mesoscale (100 m) and microscale (1 - 10 m). Largely absent from this work is a mesoscale link to the larger and smaller scales. We used stream alteration classifications to provide this link. We used orthophotographs, land cover, and LiDAR derived terrain models to classify stream alterations within four watersheds. We compared phosphorus point data with watershed, sub-watershed, and 100-meter buffers around the point data. In the predominately urban watershed, the 100 m buffer scale correlated better with phosphorus levels. In the predominately agricultural watershed, the sub-watershed scale correlated with phosphorus levels better. We found adding the classification of the stream alteration type clarified anomalously low phosphorus levels.