Temporal trends in nitrogen isotope values of nitrate leaching from an agricultural soil

Chemical Geology

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 219-227

  Ostrom, Nathaniel E ^a   Knoke, Keith E ^a   Hedin, Lars O ^b   Robertson, G Philip ^a   Smucker, Alvin J M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; LEACHING; LYSIMETRY; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SOIL DEGRADATION;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; NITRATE LEACHING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE;

EID: 0032485698     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00012-6     Document Type: Article

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