Subregional and downscaled global scenarios of nutrient transfer in river basins: Seine-Somme-Scheldt case study

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Thieu, Vincent ^a   Mayorga, Emilio ^b   Billen, Gilles ^a   Garnier, Josette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTAIN HYPOTHESIS; DOWN-SCALING; DRIVING FORCES; ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL LEVELS; GLOBAL SCENARIOS; IN-STREAM PROCESS; INPUT DATAS; LOCAL SCALE; NUTRIENT EXPORT; NUTRIENT TRANSFER; PROCESS-BASED APPROACH; RIVER BASINS; SCALE MODELS; SCHELDT; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; TOTAL NITROGEN;

LANDFORMS; PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENTS;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MODEL TEST; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER BASIN; WATERSHED;

FRANCE; PICARDIE; SCHELDT RIVER; SEINE RIVER; SOMME RIVER;

EID: 77954340272     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GB003561     Document Type: Article

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