Nutrient runoff dynamics in a rural catchment: Influence of land-use changes, climatic fluctuations and ecotechnological measures

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 405-417

  Mander, Ülo ^a   Kull, Ain ^a   Kuusemets, Valdo ^a   Tamm, Toomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Climatic fluctuations; Ecotechnological measures; Land use change; Nutrient losses

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RUNOFF; RURAL AREA;

ESTONIA;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0034176242     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(99)00064-6     Document Type: Article

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