Headwaters to Valley: Water quality in rivers transitioning from forest to agricultural bottomland
Douglas Graber Neufeld, Isaac Alderfer, Zachary Bauman, Micah Buckwalter
The paper examines how land cover affects water quality in rivers transitioning from forest to agricultural areas, finding that forested regions generally maintain better water quality than agricultural regions.
PLoS ONE · Oct 30, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology