Biogeochemistry: Some opportunities and challenges for the future

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 5-24

  Likens, Gene E ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid rain; Antibiotics; Biogeochemistry; Eutrophication; Hydrology; Legacies; N and Ca cycling; Scale; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FUTURE PROSPECT; NITROGEN CYCLE; RESEARCH; WEATHERING;

EID: 4344689089     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WAFO.0000028341.75842.08     Document Type: Article

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