Quantifying the impact of regular cutting on vegetative buffer efficacy for nitrogen-15 sequestration

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1651-1664

  Bedard Haughn, A ^a,b   Tate, K W ^a   Van Kessel, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOMASS; IRRIGATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

IRRIGATED PASTURE; NITROGEN-15 SEQUESTRATION; SUBSURFACE WATER; VEGETATIVE BUFFER UPTAKE;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

BUFFER; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PASTURE; PLANT GROWTH; SUMMER; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WATER QUALITY;

BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; FRESH WATER; LINEAR MODELS; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

BIOMASS; IRRIGATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOISTURE; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANTS; RUNOFF;

EID: 25844501381     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0033     Document Type: Article

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