Assessment of the sources of nitrate in the Changjiang River, China using a nitrogen and oxygen isotopic approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1573-1578

  Si Liang, L I ^a   Cong Qiang, L I U ^a   Jun, L I ^a   Xiaolong, L I U ^a   Chetelat, Benjamin ^a   Wang, Baoli ^a   Wang, Fushun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER RIVERS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING PERIOD; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; WATER SAMPLES;

DENITRIFICATION; DROUGHT; EFFLUENTS; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; OXYGEN; SEWAGE;

RIVERS;

ISOTOPE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RIVER WATER;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER WATER; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DENITRIFICATION; DROUGHT; NITRIFICATION; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

CHINA; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RIVERS;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77749264848     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902670n     Document Type: Article

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