Does converting agricultural fields to wetlands retain or release P?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 820-830

  Steinman, Alan D ^a   Ogdahl, Mary E ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

celery fields; equilibrium phosphorus concentration; internal phosphorus loading; Michigan; pore water phosphorus; shallow lakes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DICOTYLEDON; FLOODED SOIL; LAKE WATER; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; POREWATER; SHALLOW WATER; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

APIUM GRAVEOLENS VAR. DULCE;

EID: 79960252892     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/10-106.1     Document Type: Article

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