Measured effect of agricultural drainage water management on hydrology, water quality, and crop yield

ASABE - 9th International Drainage Symposium 2010, Held Jointly with CIGR and CSBE/SCGAB

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 392-401

  Sunohara, Mark ^a   Youssef, Mohamed A ^b   Topp, Edward ^a   Lapen, David R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled drainage; Crop yield; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE WATER; CONTROLLED DRAINAGE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; DRAIN FLOW; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; DRAINAGE WATER MANAGEMENT; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MASS LOSS; NITRATE NITROGEN; NUTRIENT EXPORT; NUTRIENT REDUCTION; ONTARIO , CANADA; SILT LOAM; SUBSURFACE DRAINAGES; SUBSURFACE DRAINS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SILT; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CROPS;

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