Discriminating between point and non-point sources of atrazine contamination of a sandy aquifer

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 362, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 124-142

  Leterme, Bertrand ^a   Vanclooster, Marnik ^a   Rounsevell, Mark D A ^a   Bogaert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Atrazine; Geostatistics; Groundwater quality; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY;

ANOVA; ATRAZINE; GEOSTATISTICS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AQUIFERS;

ATRAZINE; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ATRAZINE; GROUNDWATER; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER QUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRUSSELS; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRAZINE; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERBICIDES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33746430584     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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