Relationships between soil and runoff phosphorus in small Alberta watersheds

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1289-1300

  Little, Joanne L ^a   Nolan, Sheilah C ^a   Casson, Janna P ^b   Olson, Barry M ^b  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b Alberta Agriculture and Food   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOILS;

DISSOLVED REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS (DRP); EXTRACTION COEFFICIENTS; SURFACE LAYER;

WATERSHEDS;

PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ALBERTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 34548805103     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2006.0502     Document Type: Article

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