Factors controlling the export of nitrogen from agricultural land in a large central european catchment during 1900-2010

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6400-6407

  Kopáček, Jiří ^a   Hejzlar, Josef ^a   Posch, Maximilian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CZECH REPUBLIC; EMPIRICAL MODEL; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MARKET ECONOMIES; N FERTILIZATION; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; LEACHING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAND USE; NITROGEN CYCLE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FERTILIZATION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MINERALIZATION; TILLAGE; WASTE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN;

CZECH REPUBLIC; VLTAVA RIVER;

EID: 84879215350     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400181m     Document Type: Article

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