Nitrogen budget of the Mobile-Alabama River System watershed

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-244

  Carey, Anne E ^a   Nezat, Carmen A ^a   Pennock, Jonathan R ^b   Jones, Tracy ^c   Lyons, W Berry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Mass balance; Nitrate; Nitrogen; Rivers

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CULTIVATION; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; RIVERS;

CROP PRODUCTION; FOREST GROWTH; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; MASS BALANCE; NITROGEN BUDGETS; NITROGEN MASS BALANCE; RIVERINE SYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

WATERSHEDS;

DENITRIFICATION; HYDROLOGY; MASS BALANCE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WATERSHED;

ALABAMA; ALABAMA RIVER; MOBILE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0141568842     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-005     Document Type: Article

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