Modeling nutrient retention at the watershed scale: Does small stream research apply to the whole river network?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 728-740

  Aguilera, Rosana ^a   Marcé, Rafael ^a   Sabater, Sergi ^a,b  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

impaired rivers; modeling; nutrient retention; watershed scale

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DRAINAGE NETWORK; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PREDICTION; RIVER FLOW; STREAM; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

CATALONIA; LLOBREGAT BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84880168535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20062     Document Type: Article

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