Land clearance and nitrate-rich groundwater in a Sahelian aquifer, Niger

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 278, 2003, Pages 163-167

  Favreau, Guillaume ^a   Leduc, Christian ^a   Seidel, Jean Luc ^a   Ousmane, Sani Daouda ^b   Mariotti, André ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Institut des Radio Isotopes   (Niger)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental isotopes; Groundwater quality; Land use; Niger; Nitrate; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; NITRATES; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION;

NITROGEN FLUX;

GROUNDWATER;

CLEARANCE RATE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

AQUIFERS; GROUND WATER; NITRATES; PLANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0037697759     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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