The use of fertilizer-free grass buffer strips to attenuate nitrate input to marshland dykes

Water and Environment Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-59

  White, S K ^a   Cook, H F ^b   Garraway, J L ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buffer strips; Drainage; Marshland dykes; Nitrate loading

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STRIPS;

DRAINAGE; LEVEES; NITRATES; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER ANALYSIS;

WATER POLLUTION;

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; RUNOFF;

BUFFER STRIP; GRASS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MARSHLAND SOIL; NITRATE RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032005781     PISSN: 17476585     EISSN: 17476593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1998.tb00147.x     Document Type: Article

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