Impacts of agricultural phosphorus use in catchments on shallow lake water quality: About buffers, time delays and equilibria

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 369, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 280-294

  Schippers, Peter ^a   van de Weerd, Hendrika ^a   de Klein, Jeroen ^a   de Jong, Barend ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Macrophytes; Response time; Runoff; Soil; Water Framework Directive; Watershed

Indexed keywords

LAKE ECOSYSTEMS; MACROPHYTES; RESPONSE TIME; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOSPHORUS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER QUALITY;

BUFFER; LAKE WATER; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUFFERING; CATCHMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; PHOSPHORUS; SHALLOW WATER; SOIL DEGRADATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; LAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL; TIME; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; BUFFERS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33747876156     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.04.028     Document Type: Article

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