Controls on nutrients across a prairie stream watershed: Land use and riparian cover effects

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 634-646

  Dodds, Walter K ^a   Oakes, Robert M ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Prairie watershed; Riparian; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; LAND USE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY;

PRAIRIE WATERSHED; RIPARIAN; STREAM NUTRIENTS;

WATERSHEDS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

EUTROPHICATION; LAND USE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAM; VEGETATION COVER; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; PRAIRIE; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; STREAM (RIVER); WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYCORRHIZAE; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT ROOTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645420470     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0072-3     Document Type: Article

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