Episodic increases in nitrate concentrations in streamwater due to the partial dieback of a pine forest in Japan: Runoff generation processes control seasonality

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-249

  Ohte, Nobuhito ^a   Tokuchi, Naoko ^a   Katsuyama, Masanori ^a   Hobara, Satoru ^a   Asano, Yuko ^a   Koba, Keisuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Japan; Nitrate; Pine dieback; Runoff generation process; Seasonality; Streamwater

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; NITRATES; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

PINE FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

DIEBACK; FORESTED CATCHMENT; NITRATE; RUNOFF; SEASONALITY; STREAMWATER;

GROUND WATER; LEACHING; NITRATES; PINUS; RUNOFF; WATER SHEDS;

JAPAN;

RIPARIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0037442766     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1121     Document Type: Article

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