Evaluating a Great Lakes scale landscape stressor index to assess water quality in the St. Louis River Area of Concern

Agriculture & Biology

• Great Lakes 100%
• estuaries 80%
• water quality 77%
• rivers 61%
• point source pollution 36%
• chlorides 33%
• Lake Superior 29%
• soil surveys 28%
• harbors (waterways) 23%
• turbidity 21%
• dissolved oxygen 20%
• roads 19%
• electrical conductivity 19%
• agricultural land 19%
• sediments 18%
• population density 17%
• sulfates 16%
• sampling 13%
• Escherichia coli 12%
• degradation 11%
• soil 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• water quality 51%
• estuary 48%
• lake 45%
• index 39%
• river 38%
• watershed 34%
• chloride 24%
• point source pollution 22%
• erosivity 20%
• soil survey 18%
• sampling 17%
• industrial activity 16%
• drain 14%
• population density 14%
• electrical conductivity 14%
• tributary 14%
• turbidity 13%
• agricultural land 12%
• GIS 11%
• restoration 11%
• saturation 11%
• road 11%
• sulfate 11%
• parameter 10%
• degradation 10%
• land 8%
• project 8%
• sediment 7%
• soil 6%