Effect of tile effluent on nutrient concentration and retention efficiency in agricultural drainage ditches

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1271-1279

  Ahiablame, L M ^a   Chaubey, I ^a,b   Smith, D R ^c   Engel, B A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SOIL EROSION RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; Ammonium nitrogen; Downstream water quality; Net uptake length; Nitrate nitrogen; Soluble phosphorus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AMMONIUM NITROGEN; DOWNSTREAM WATER QUALITY; NET UPTAKE LENGTH; NITRATE NITROGEN; SOLUBLE PHOSPHORUS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CULTIVATION; DRAINAGE; EFFLUENTS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

NUTRIENTS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AMMONIUM COMPOUND; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RETENTION; SAMPLER; TILE DRAIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956293923     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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