Using artificial fluorescent particles as tracers of livestock wastes within an agricultural catchment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1095-1103

  Granger, Steve J ^a   Bol, Roland ^a   Hawkins, Jane M B ^a   White, Sue M ^b   Naden, Pamela S ^c   Old, Gareth H ^c   Marsh, Jon K ^d   Bilotta, Gary S ^e   Brazier, Richard E ^f   Macleod, Christopher J A ^a   Haygarth, Philip M ^g  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d Environmental Tracing Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural catchments; Animal waste; Particles; Storm events; Tracing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; ANIMAL WASTE; PARTICLES; STORM EVENTS; TRACING;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; HYSTERESIS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

CATCHMENTS;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; HYSTERESIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; SLURRY; STORM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TRACER; WASTE;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL SLURRY; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HYSTERESIS; LIVESTOCK; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SUSPENSION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER SAMPLING;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENT DYES; FRESH WATER; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78751705385     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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