Nitrate movement and removal along a shallow groundwater flow path in a riparian wetland within a sheep-grazed pastoral catchment: Results of a tracer study

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 371-385

  Burns, Douglas A ^a,b   Nguyen, Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing management; Groundwater; Nitrate movement; Nitrate removal; Riparian wetlands; Tracer study; Water quality

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; NITRATE; PASTURE; PIEZOMETER; TRACER; WETLAND;

OVIS ARIES; RIPARIA;

EID: 0036622891     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2002.9517094     Document Type: Article

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