The impact of agricultural Best Management Practices on water quality in a North German lowland catchment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 351-379

  Lam, Q D ^a   Schmalz, B ^a   Fohrer, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Best management practice; Environment; SWAT

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; BUFFER STRIP; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIFFUSE SOURCES; ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; GERMAN LOWLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; IMPLEMENTATION COST; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; LOAD REDUCTION; LOWLAND CATCHMENT; MODEL SIMULATION; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NUTRIENT LOADS; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PLANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SIMULATING FLOWS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STUDY AREAS; SWAT; SWAT MODEL; TARGET VALUES; TIME STEP; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER QUALITY DEGRADATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CATCHMENTS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CATCHMENT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LAND USE; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT LOADING; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; PASTURE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 82455192274     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-1926-9     Document Type: Article

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