Trends in water quality around an intensive tea-growing area in Shizuoka, Japan

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 783-792

  Hirono, Yuhei ^a   Watanabe, Ikuo ^a   Nonaka, Kunihiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nitrate nitrogen; Nitrogen fertilizer; Tea; Trend analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149101249     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2009.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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