Spatial patterns of soil nitrate in Japanese forest watersheds: importance of the near-stream zone as a source of nitrate in stream water

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1433-1445

  Ohrui, Kiyokazu ^a,b   Mitchell, Myron J ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAR STREAM ZONE;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HYDROLOGY; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

WATERSHEDS;

NITRATE; STREAM WATER QUALITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032124740     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199807)12:9<1433::AID-HYP646>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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