Estimating phosphorus delivery from land to water in headwater catchments using a fuzzy decision tree approach

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 175-186

  Scholefield, P ^a,b   Heathwaite, A L ^b   Brazier, R E ^c   Page, T ^d   Scharer M ^b,e   Beven, K ^b   Hodgkinson, R ^e   Withers, P ^f   Walling, D ^c   Haygarth, P M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

^e ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land evaluation; Phosphorus P; Soil hydrology; Statistics; Sustainable land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DISSOLUTION; DISTURBANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEADWATER; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MOBILIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; SURFACE WATER; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84874723116     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sum.12007     Document Type: Article

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