Impact of N-Saturated Upland Forests on Downstream N Pollution in the Tatara River Basin, Japan

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 230-241

  Chiwa, Masaaki ^a   Onikura, Norio ^a   Ide, Jun'ichiro ^a,b   Kume, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

atmospheric N deposition; forest; long term trends; N saturation; non point source; stream water quality; synoptic sampling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MATURATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION; SATURATION; STREAMWATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

FUKUOKA [KYUSHU]; JAPAN; KYUSHU; TATARA RIVER;

EID: 84857786427     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9505-z     Document Type: Article

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