Primary consumer stable nitrogen isotopes as indicators of nutrient source

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7509-7515

  Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a   Vadeboncoeur, Yvonne ^b   Diebel, Matthew W ^a   Jeppesen, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIFFUSION; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUATIC CONSUMERS; BUFFER AREAS; ISOTOPE VALUES;

NITROGEN;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; FRESH WATER;

EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TRACER;

AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST; LAND USE; NUTRIENT; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERSHED; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; DIFFUSION; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; WATER SHEDS;

DENMARK; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES;

EID: 26044476328     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050606t     Document Type: Article

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