Groundwater nitrogen composition and transformation within a moorland catchment, mid-Wales

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 241-254

  Lapworth, D J ^a   Shand, P ^a   Abesser, C ^a   Darling, W G ^a   Haria, A H ^b   Evans, C D ^b   Reynolds, B ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON); Groundwater; Nitrate; Nitrification; Transformations; Upland catchments

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; SOILS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN (DON); GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; UPLAND CATCHMENTS;

NITROGEN;

GROUND WATER; ORGANONITROGEN DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CATCHMENT; GROUNDWATER; HILLSLOPE; MOORLAND; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRANSFORMATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; HYDROLOGY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NITRIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; IRON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PLANTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RAIN; SOIL; WALES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CEREDIGION; EURASIA; EUROPE; PLYNLIMON; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE; WYE RIVER [ENGLAND-WALES];

EID: 36749062453     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.09.043     Document Type: Article

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