A comparison between pulse and constant rate additions as methods for the estimation of nutrient uptake efficiency in-streams

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 388, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Álvarez, Marta ^a   Proia, Lorenzo ^b   Ruggiero, Antonio ^c   Sabater, Francesc ^a   Butturini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constant rate addition; Nutrient retention; Phosphate; Pulse addition; Streams

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT RATE; MEDITERRANEAN STREAMS; NUTRIENT RETENTION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PULSE ADDITION; SOLUTE INTERACTION; STREAMBEDS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; UPTAKE RATE; WATER RESIDENCE TIME;

HYDRAULICS; NUTRIENTS; RIVERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUVIAL PROCESS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHATE; RESIDENCE TIME; STREAM; STREAM BED; SURFACE WATER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 77953651152     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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