Groundwater nitrate reductions within upstream and downstream sections of a riparian buffer

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 297-307

  Messer, Tiffany L ^a   Burchell, Michael R ^a   Grabow, Garry L ^a   Osmond, Deanna L ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Hydrology; Nitrate; NO 3 N; Riparian buffer

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; BUFFER ZONES; CONSERVATION BUFFERS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DESIGN GUIDANCE; GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; NITRATE REDUCTION; NORTH CAROLINA; PROGRAM MANAGER; REDOX MEASUREMENT; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; WATER TABLE DEPTHS; WATER TABLES;

AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; NITRATES; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

REDUCTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BUFFER ZONE; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; NITRATE; REDUCTION; RIPARIAN ZONE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TABLE;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865571969     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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