Long-term nitrate increases in two oligotrophic lakes, due to the leaching of atmospherically-deposited N from moorland ranker soils

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-49

  Tipping, E ^a   Thacker, S A ^a   Wilson, D ^a   Hall, J R ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Lakes; Leaching; Nitrate; Soils

Indexed keywords

LAKES; LEACHING; NITROGEN; SOILS; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; NITRATE FLUXES;

NITRATES;

CARBON; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSLAND; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LEACHING; MOORLAND; NITRATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PODZOL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FERTILIZATION; GRASSLAND; LAKE; LEACHING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FERTILIZERS; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; SOIL; TIME; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BUTTERMERE; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTWATER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39749102464     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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