Nitrogen stable isotopes in streams: Effects of agricultural sources and transformations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1127-1134

  Diebel, Matthew W ^a   Zanden, M Jake Vander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Denitrification; Fertilizer; Manure; Nitrogen stable isotopes; Primary consumer invertebrates; USA; Watershed; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOINDICATOR; CENSUS; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DENITRIFICATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; LAND COVER; MANURE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM; VOLATILIZATION; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGROCHEMICALS; ANIMALS; FERTILIZERS; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 68149131616     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0327.1     Document Type: Article

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