Extent and causes of 3D spatial variations in potential N mineralization and the risk of ammonium and nitrate leaching from an N-impacted permanent grassland near York, UK

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1075-1082

  Riaz, Muhammad ^a   Mian, Ishaq A ^a   Cresser, Malcolm S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deposition; Mineralization; N leaching; Nitrogen; Soil profile

Indexed keywords

LEACHING; MINERALOGY; NITRATES; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION;

ACIDIC SURFACES; C:N RATIOS; HIGH PROBABILITIES; MINERALIZATION; N LEACHING; N MINERALIZATIONS; N SPECIES; NATURE RESERVES; NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; NITRATE LEACHING; ROOTING ZONES; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROFILES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE;

AMMONIFICATION; AMMONIUM; GRASSLAND; LEACHING; MINERALIZATION; NATURE RESERVE; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; PROBABILITY; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSFORMATION;

AMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRASSLAND; INCUBATION TIME; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE LEACHING; NITRIFICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; AMMONIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; CLIMATE; ENGLAND; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; POACEAE; RAIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; YORK [ENGLAND];

EID: 55649088923     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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