Long-term nitrate export pattern from Hubbard Brook watershed 6 driven by climatic variation

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 160, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 293-326

  Hong, Bongghi ^a,c   Swaney, Dennis P ^a   Woodbury, Peter B ^a,b   Weinstein, David A ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Forested watershed; Hubbard Brook; Modeling; Nitrogen dynamics; Streamflow nitrate flux

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENITRIFICATION; DROUGHT; FREEZING; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MINERAL RESOURCES; MOISTURE; SOILS;

INSECT DEFOLIATION; MINERALIZATION; SOIL FREEZING; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

NITRATES;

NITRATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NITRATE; RIVER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATERSHED;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

INSECTA;

EID: 17844362892     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-005-2831-z     Document Type: Article

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