Seepage of groundwater nitrate from a Riparian agroecosystem into the Wye River estuary

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 359-370

  Staver, K W ^a   Brinsfield, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGROECOSYSTEM; DISCHARGE; ESTUARINE WATER QUALITY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER/ESTUARY INTERFACE; NITRATE; NITRATES;

USA, CHESAPEAKE BAY;

EID: 0029669762     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352456     Document Type: Article

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