Nitrogen source apportionment for the catchment, estuary, and adjacent coastal waters of the river Scheldt

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Vermaat, Jan E ^a   Broekx, Steven ^b   van Eck, Bert ^c   Engelen, Guy ^b   Hellmann, Fritz ^a   de Kok, Jean Luc ^b   van der Kwast, Hans ^b   Maes, Joachim ^d   Salomons, Wim ^a   van Deursen, Willem ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e PCRaster ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catchment hydrology; Coupled modeling; Estuary; Eutrophication; Land use; Systems analysis; Watershed nutrient loading

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; COASTAL WATER; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

SCHELDT RIVER;

EID: 84864451663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04889-170230     Document Type: Article

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