Nitrogen leaching from catchments in the Middle Hills of Nepal; an application of the INCA model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 228, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 259-274

  Collins, R ^a   Whitehead, P ^b   Butterfield, D ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

INCA; Nepal; Nitrogen leaching; Terraced agriculture

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; LEACHING; MODELING; NITROGEN; TERRACING;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; LEACHING; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NEPAL;

EID: 0032947944     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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