Nitrate leaching from a mountain forest ecosystem with gleysols subjected to experimentally increased N deposition

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 453-467

  Schleppi, Patrick ^a   Hagedorn, Frank ^a   Providoli, Isabelle ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Forest ecosystem; Gleysols; Nitrate leaching; Nitrogen deposition; Paired catchment experiment

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLEYSOL; LEACHING; NITRATE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RUNOFF;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ABIES; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 4344695208     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WAFO.0000028371.72044.fb     Document Type: Article

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