Soil nitrate nitrogen dynamics after biosolids application in a tobosagrass desert grassland

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 641-650

  Jurado Guerra, Pedro ^a   Wester, David B ^b   Fish, Ernest B ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; NYLON POLYMERS; POLYESTERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOILS;

BIOSOLIDS; MULCH; SPRING PRECIPITATION; SURFACE LOCATION; TOBOSAGRASS;

NITRIFICATION;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; NYLON; POLYESTER;

ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPRING; SUMMER;

DESERT CLIMATE; FERTILIZERS; METALS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; POACEAE; SEWAGE; SOIL; TEXAS;

BLEPHARIDACHNE; PLEURAPHIS MUTICA;

EID: 33644931883     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0062     Document Type: Article

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