Role of soil and grass strips in reducing nitrate-N pollution in subsurface drained farmlands: Lysimeter results

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 351-361

  Liaghat, Abdolmajid ^a   Prasher, Shiv O ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARMS; LYSIMETERS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

FARMLANDS; GRASS STRIPS; SUBSURFACE; WATER TABLE MANAGEMENT;

WATER;

EID: 0031222589     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj2203351     Document Type: Article

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