Soil Budget, Net Export, and Potential Sinks of Nitrogen in the Lower Oglio River Watershed (Northern Italy)

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 956-965

  Soana, Elisa ^a   Racchetti, Erica ^a   Laini, Alex ^a   Bartoli, Marco ^a   Viaroli, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Drainage network; Nitrogen budget; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FERTILIZER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; SLUDGE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; VOLATILIZATION; WASTEWATER;

ITALY; LOMBARDY; OGLIO RIVER; PO BASIN;

EID: 80555144216     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201000454     Document Type: Article

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