Dissolved organic nitrogen as an indicator of livestock impacts on soil biochemical quality

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Stamati, Fotini E ^a   Nikolaidis, Nikolaos P ^a   Venieri, Danae ^a   Psillakis, Eleftheria ^a   Kalogerakis, Nicolas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; AROMATICITIES; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOCHEMICAL QUALITY; DEGRADED SOILS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; GRAZING AREAS; GRAZING LAND; KARSTIC; KARSTIC SPRINGS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LIVESTOCK GRAZING; LOWER FUNGI; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; N CONTENT; N SPECIES; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANT UPTAKE; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; PRIMARY FACTORS; REGIONAL SCALE; RIVER BASINS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARID REGIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SOILS; SPRINGS (WATER); VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGGREGATE SIZE; ARID REGION; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CULTIVATION; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FUNGUS; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMOBILIZATION; KARST HYDROLOGY; LITTER; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OVERGRAZING; RIVER BASIN; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL QUALITY; WATER QUALITY;

CANEA; CRETE; GREECE; KOILIARIS BASIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 79955971451     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.070     Document Type: Article

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