Comment on "In-stream nitrogen attenuation: Model-aggregation effects and implications for coastal nitrogen impacts" [1]

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2485-2486

  Alexander, Richard B ^a   Smith, Richard A ^a   Schwarz, Gregory E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; CALIBRATION; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; LETTER; MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN;

EID: 33645763257     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es052281m     Document Type: Letter

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