Seasonal phosphatase activity in three characteristic soils of the English uplands polluted by long-term atmospheric nitrogen deposition

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 313-317

  Turner, Benjamin L ^a,b   Baxter, Robert ^a   Whitton, Brian A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition; Peat; Phosphatase; Phosphomonoesterase; Phosphorus; Soil; Uplands

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENZYMES; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOIL POLLUTION;

GRASSLAND SOILS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

4 NITROPHENOL; CARBON; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORUS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORUS; SEASONALITY; SOIL POLLUTION; UPLAND REGION;

ARTICLE; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036971262     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00147-1     Document Type: Article

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