Soluble reactive phosphorus levels in rainfall, cloud water, throughfall, stemflow, soil waters, stream waters and groundwaters for the Upper River Severn area, Plynlimon, mid Wales

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 314-316, Issue , 2003, Pages 99-120

  Neal, Colin ^a   Reynolds, Brian ^b   Neal, Margaret ^a   Hughes, Steve ^b   Wickham, Heather ^a   Hill, Linda ^a   Rowland, Philip ^a   Pugh, Bronwen ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud water; Deforestation; Forest; Hafren; Harvesting; Hore; Moorland; Orthophosphate; Phosphorus; Plynlimon; Rainfall; Sitka; Soil water; Soluble reactive phosphorus; Stemflow; Streams; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLOUDS; GROUNDWATER; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SOILS;

STREAM WATERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

GROUND WATER; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN;

GROUNDWATER; PHOSPHORUS; RAINWATER; SOIL WATER; STEMFLOW; STREAMWATER; THROUGHFALL;

CATCHMENT; CLOUD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; SOLUBILITY; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION;

PLYNLIMON; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 18144441502     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(03)00099-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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