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Southern Appalachian Mountains
Distinctive connectivities of near-stream and watershed-wide land uses differentially degrade rural aquatic ecosystems

UGA Geography's David Leigh and a team of researchers review and synthesize spatially extensive studies of oligotrophic mountain streams in the rural Southern Appalachian Mountains, concluding that rural land-use activities significantly degrade water quality through altered and mostly enhanced landscape–stream connections, despite high forest retention. Some connections are controlled by near-stream land-use activities, whereas others are…

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Research, watershed, river basins, socioecological governance, rural aquatic ecosystems
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