Nitrogen losses in runoff from three adjacent agricultural watersheds with claypan soils

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-48

  Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Motavalli, Peter P ^a   Garrett, Harold E ^a   Krstansky, J John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn soybean rotation; Nitrate N in runoff; Total N in runoff

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CROP ROTATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NITROGEN; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33748314760     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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