Grassed buffer strips for the control of nitrate leaching to surface waters in headwater catchments

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 299-313

  Leeds Harrison, P B ^a   Quinton, J N ^a   Walker, M J ^a   Sanders, C L ^a   Harrod, T ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grassed buffer strip; Headwater catchments; Hydrology; Nitrate removal

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; GRASSED RIPARIAN BUFFER STRIP; LEACHING; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PLANT METABOLISM; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

BUFFERING; LEACHING; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0033038302     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(98)00075-5     Document Type: Article

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