Nitrate in watersheds: Straight from soils to streams?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 291-302

  Sudduth, Elizabeth B ^a,b   Perakis, Steven S ^c   Bernhardt, Emily S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

groundwater; nitrate; nitrogen; soil solution; stream water; watershed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DENITRIFICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; STREAMWATER; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATERSHED;

EID: 84880098423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20030     Document Type: Article

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