An assessment of nitrogen removal from headwater streams in an agricultural watershed, northeast Ohio, U.S.A.

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2573-2582

  Herrman, Kyle S ^a,b   Bouchard, Virginie ^a   Moore, Richard H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; DENITRIFICATION; HEADWATER; LAND USE; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT LOSS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAMWATER; WATERSHED;

EID: 55749096410     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.6.2573     Document Type: Article

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