N budgets and aquatic uptake in the Ipswich River basin, northeastern Massachusetts

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Williams, Michael ^a,b,c   Hopkinson, Charles ^a   Rastetter, Edward ^a   Vallino, Joseph ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Land use; Nitrogen; Uptake; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; NITRATES; NITROGEN; RIVERS; STEAM; WETLANDS;

BASE FLOW; MASS BALANCE; NUTRIENTS; TOTAL NITROGEN (TN);

CATCHMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

IPSWICH RIVER; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044273405     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003172     Document Type: Article

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