A landscape level analysis of potential excess nitrogen in east-central North Carolina, USA

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 3-21

  Garten Jr , C T ^a   Ashwood, T L ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Eutrophication; Harmful algal blooms; Landscape ecology; Mass balance model; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DENITRIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; RIVERS;

FERTILIZATION;

NITROGEN;

GROUND WATER; NITROGEN;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EUTROPHICATION; LAND COVER; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL NITROGEN; WATER POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL SINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZATION; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RIVER BASIN; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 0038343655     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023923105942     Document Type: Review

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