Grassed buffer strips as nitrate diffuse pollution remediation tools: Management impact on the denitrification enzyme activity

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Cors, Marie ^a   Tychon, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Denitrifying enzyme activity; Riparian grass buffer strip

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITROGEN REMOVAL; REMEDIATION; RIVERS;

DENITRIFYING ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSED BUFFER STRIPS;

DENITRIFICATION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; RUNOFF;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITROGEN REMOVAL; REMEDIATION; RIVERS;

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BUFFER ZONE; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NITRATE; REMEDIATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER BANK; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; BELGIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; LAND USE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

BELGIUM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; POACEAE;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947208086     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2007.068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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