Runoff water quality from broiler litter-amended tall fescue in response to natural precipitation in the Ozark Highlands

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1005-1017

  Menjoulet, B C ^a   Brye, K R ^a   Pirani, A L ^a   Haggard, B E ^a   Gbur, E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION RATES; BROILER CHICKENS; BROILER LITTER; DRINKING WATER; LAND APPLICATIONS; MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS; POTENTIAL SURFACES; POULTRY HOUSE; POULTRY INDUSTRY; SILT LOAM; SOIL AMENDMENT; TALL FESCUE; TRANSPORTATION COST; WATER CONTAMINATION; WEIGHTED MEAN;

FORESTRY; POTABLE WATER; SILT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING;

RUNOFF;

AMMONIA; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METAL DERIVATIVE; NICKEL; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RUNOFF; SELENIUM; SODIUM; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; FESCUE; LOAM SOIL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; POULTRY; PRECIPITATION; SOIL AMENDMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ARKANSAS; CHICKENS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LOLIUM; MANURE; METALS; NITRATES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORUS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RAIN; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 66649086935     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0140     Document Type: Article

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