Upwind impacts of ammonia from an intensive poultry unit

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 180, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-228

  Jones, L ^a   Nizam, M S ^a,c   Reynolds, B ^a   Bareham, S ^b   Oxley, E R B ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Air pollution; Chicken farm; Dune grassland; Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA EMISSIONS; CONTROLLED MANIPULATIONS; DUNE GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SPECIES; LONG-TERM IMPACTS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; TOTAL NITROGEN DEPOSITION;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN; TISSUE;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUNE; EMISSION; GRASSLAND; NATURE RESERVE; NITROGEN; POULTRY; SOIL CARBON;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; POULTRY FARMING; VEGETATION; WIND;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; CHICKEN FARM; DUNE GRASSLAND; NITROGEN DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AMMONIA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POULTRY;

EID: 84879235549     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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